From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:27:50 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: vm lock contention reduction In-Reply-To: <3D24D4A0.D39B8F2C@zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > If the machine is instead full of anon pages then everything is still > crap because the page reclaim code is scanning zillions of pages and not > doing much useful with them. This is something that can be fixed with rmap, because the kernel _will_ be able to do something useful with the anon pages. Now we just need to get Arjan to tune the O(1) page launder thing he was looking at ;) Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/