From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM bugfix + rebalanced + code beauty References: From: Christoph Rohland Date: 01 Jun 2000 19:18:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 18:19:55 -0300 (BRST)" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Alan Cox , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: Rik van Riel 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 -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/