From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: journaling & VM (was: Re: reiserfs being part of the kernel: it'snot just the code) References: <20000607144102.F30951@redhat.com> <20000607154620.O30951@redhat.com> <393EAD84.A4BB6BD9@reiser.to> <20000607215436.F30951@redhat.com> <393EBEB5.AEEFF501@reiser.to> From: "Juan J. Quintela" In-Reply-To: Hans Reiser's message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:29:25 -0700" Date: 07 Jun 2000 23:50:52 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hans Reiser Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Rik van Riel , bert hubert , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Chris Mason , linux-mm@kvack.org, Alexander Zarochentcev List-ID: >>>>> "hans" == Hans Reiser writes: Hi >> Every time we have tried to keep the caches completely separate, we >> have ended up losing the ability to balance the various caches against >> each other. The major advantage of a common set of LRU lists is that >> it gives us a basis for a balanced VM. >> >> Cheers, >> Stephen hans> If I understand Juan correctly, they fixed this issue. Aging 1/64th of the hans> cache for every cache evenly at every round of trying to free pages should be an hans> excellent fix. It should do just fine at the task of handling a system with hans> both ext3 and reiserfs running. hans> Was this Juan's code that did this? If so, kudos to him. I am working in that also, but in the merging of all the caches allways than possible. I.e. Rik and me done the defered swap patch, I am finising the defered mmap page write and after that I will try the defered shm code (I need to read the shm code first :() Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy -- 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/