From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:08:32 +0200 References: <3D2DF5CB.471024F9@zip.com.au> <3D2E08DE.3C0D619@zip.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D2E08DE.3C0D619@zip.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management List-ID: On Friday 12 July 2002 00:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > But yes, at some point you do need to stop carving away at the > clean pagecache and wait on writeback completion. Not sure > how to balance that. Alert alert! We're supposed to be benchmarking rmap, not fixing the world just now. We should just ensure that our rmap and non-rmap kernels are equally crippled with respect to purging of streaming IO, unless we have a very specific reason why the situation should be affected by the difference in scanning strategies. -- Daniel -- 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-mm.org/