From: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed
Date: 08 May 2000 20:53:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dnhfc8yitw.fsf@magla.iskon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of "Mon, 8 May 2000 15:46:09 -0300 (BRST)"
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> 20MB and 24MB machines will be in the same situation, if
> that's of any help to you ;)
>
Yes, you are right. And thanks for that tip (booting with mem=24m)
because that will be my first test case later tonight.
> > But after few hours spent dealing with the horrible VM that is
> > in the pre6, I'm not scared anymore. And I think that solution
> > to all our problems with zone balancing must be very simple.
>
> It is. Linus is working on a conservative & simple solution
> while I'm trying a bit more "far-out" code (active and inactive
> list a'la BSD, etc...). We should have at least one good VM
> subsystem within the next few weeks ;)
>
Nice. I'm also in favour of some kind of active/inactive list
solution (looks promising), but that is probably 2.5.x stuff.
I would be happy to see 2.4 out ASAP. Later, when it stabilizes, we
will have lots of fun in 2.5, that's for sure.
Regards,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-08 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-08 17:21 Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-08 17:43 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-08 18:16 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-08 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-08 18:46 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-08 18:53 ` Zlatko Calusic [this message]
2000-05-08 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-09 7:56 ` Daniel Stone
2000-05-09 8:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-09 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-09 16:12 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-09 17:42 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-09 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-10 11:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-10 11:50 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-05-11 23:40 ` Mark Hahn
2000-05-10 4:05 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2000-05-10 7:29 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2000-05-11 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 16:36 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed (pre7-9) Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan
2000-05-11 1:04 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 1:53 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-11 7:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 14:17 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-11 23:38 ` Simon Kirby
2000-05-12 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 2:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] shrink_mmap avoid list_del (Was: Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed) Roger Larsson
2000-05-11 11:15 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Rik van Riel
2000-05-11 5:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 10:09 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2000-05-11 17:25 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-05-11 23:25 ` [patch] balanced highmem subsystem under pre7-9 Ingo Molnar
2000-05-11 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 0:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 0:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 9:02 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-12 9:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 11:49 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-12 16:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 10:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-12 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 12:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-12 13:20 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-12 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 17:15 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-12 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 18:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-12 19:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 19:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-12 22:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-13 11:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-05-13 12:03 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-13 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-13 14:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-19 1:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-19 15:03 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-19 16:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-05-19 17:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-19 22:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-11 11:12 ` [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed Christoph Rohland
2000-05-11 17:38 ` Steve Dodd
2000-05-09 10:21 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-11 11:26 Jones D (ISaCS)
2000-05-12 7:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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