From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM bugfix + rebalanced + code beauty
Date: 01 Jun 2000 19:18:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwu2fd1fsi.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 18:19:55 -0300 (BRST)"
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> > I would love to integrate the whole shm page handling into the
> > page cache.
>
> That would be great. If we have this we can weigh page cache,
> swap cache and shm pages equally. Not only will this result in
> better page replacement, but it will also save on kswapd cpu
> usage.
>
> Even better, having this will allow us to (trivially) insert
> the active/inactive queue idea into the kernel, fixing the
> "write stall" problems for a lot of situations.
And it will make shm trivial with respect to page handling. We will be
able to make the shm fs a real in memory fs which would be used
occasionally by SYSV shm.
Greetings
Christoph
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-01 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-30 22:49 Rik van Riel
2000-05-31 18:05 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-31 18:49 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-31 19:30 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-31 20:58 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-05-31 21:19 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-01 17:18 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
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