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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM kswapd autotuning vs. -ac7
Date: 07 Jun 2000 16:29:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qww7lc1pnt0.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of "Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:39:13 -0300 (BRST)"

Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> Basically we need 2 things from the shm code, then I'll
> be able to adapt shrink_mmap with a few minutes of work ;)
> 
> 1) shm pages should be marked as such so we can recognise them

O.K. this is trivial.

> 2) we need to be able to swap out shm pages (maybe just
>    call a page->mapping->swapout() function?) by knowing just
>    the page

This is not that easy. I need a backreference to the shm segment and
the index into it to be able to note the new pte entry. Do you know
where we could put these?

Greetings
		Christoph
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-07 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-01 22:31 Rik van Riel
2000-06-02 15:54 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-02 16:01   ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-03  9:02     ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-03 20:47       ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-04 11:12         ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-05  8:58           ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-05 10:16             ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-07 10:23               ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-07 12:43                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-07 13:04                   ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-07 13:39                     ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-07 14:29                       ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-06-07 14:43                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-08 15:04                           ` [PATCH,incomplete] shm integration into shrink_mmap Christoph Rohland
2000-06-08 15:21                             ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-08 15:35                             ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-07 13:32                 ` [PATCH] VM kswapd autotuning vs. -ac7 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-07 14:09                   ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-07 14:11                   ` Christoph Rohland
2000-06-07 14:17                     ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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