From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: evict streaming IO cache first
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:15:06 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811161013270.3468@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081115210039.537f59f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Really, I think that the old approach of observing the scanner
> behaviour (rather than trying to predict it) was better.
That's generally true. Self-adjusting behaviour rather than a-priori rules
would be much nicer. However, we apparently need to fix this some way.
Anybody willing to re-introduce some of the old logic?
Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-15 9:38 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-16 0:58 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-16 5:00 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-11-16 21:20 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-16 21:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-11-17 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-17 6:19 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-17 6:30 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-17 6:39 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 6:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-17 7:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 8:22 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-17 8:32 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 16:22 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-17 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 16:27 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-17 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 16:54 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-17 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 17:16 ` [PATCH] vmscan: fix get_scan_ratio comment Rik van Riel
2008-11-17 17:32 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 18:53 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-17 20:23 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-18 0:06 ` [PATCH] vmscan: evict streaming IO first Rik van Riel
2008-12-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
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