From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:15:06 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: evict streaming IO cache first In-Reply-To: <20081115210039.537f59f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20081115181748.3410.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20081115210039.537f59f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , LKML , linux-mm , Rik van Riel , Gene Heskett List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org