From: "John Fremlin" <vii@penguinpowered.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: latancy test of -ac22-riel
Date: 23 Jun 2000 02:09:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aegdqk3q.fsf@boreas.southchinaseas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:47:50 -0300 (BRST)"
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> You're confusing things here.
It wouldn't come as great shock to me :-)
But OTOH the patch does stop the annoying stalls so it must be doing
something right.
> If kswapd was too slow in freeing up memory, but there is
> still more memory available, then we should NOT kill a
> process but just stall the process until more memory is
> available.
Yes. What I was trying to get across was that we shouldn't waste a
timeslice trying to find pages to evict which are going to be read
back in next process switch (because most pages are impossible to swap
out).
[...]
Your solution (which is what they do in FreeBSD?) would be ideal, but
it wasn't in my kernel source (test1-ac22-riel).
[...]
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-23 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-19 23:57 [itcompilesshipitPATCH] -ac22-riel vm improvement? Rik van Riel
2000-06-20 0:11 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-20 6:13 ` latancy test of -ac22-riel Roger Larsson
[not found] ` <m2u2eoxwzx.fsf@boreas.southchinaseas>
[not found] ` <394FB013.3B21EA28@norran.net>
2000-06-22 19:11 ` [PATCH] " John Fremlin
2000-06-22 19:47 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-23 1:09 ` John Fremlin [this message]
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