Re: [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:57:28AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> [CCing AA & MCP]
> 
> > --- Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> > > But have you compared your patch with the VM patches
> > > in -aa?  Will your
> > > patch apply on -aa and make improvements there too?
> > > 
> > > In other words: Why would I want to use this patch
> > > when I could use -aa?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:46:44AM -0700, Shantanu Goel wrote:
> > I prefer to run stock kernels so I don't have as much
> > experience with the -aa patches.  However, I took a
> > look at the relevant code in 2.4.22pre7aa1 and I
> > believe my patch should help there as well.  The
> > writepage() and page rotation behaviour is similar to
> > stock 2.4.22 though the inactive_list is per-classzone
> > in -aa.  I am less sure about the inode/dcache part
> > though under -aa.
> 
> You need to integrate with -aa on the VM.  It has been hard enough for
> Andrea to get his stuff in, I doubt you will fair any better.
> 
> If your patch shows improvements when applied on -aa Andrea will probably
> integrate it.

yes, at this point in time I'm willing to merge only anything that is an
obvious improvement. More doubious things would better go in 2.6.

I didn't see the patch in question, Shantanu, if you're interested to
merge it in -aa, could you submit against 2.4.22pre7aa1? Otherwise I'll
check it and possibly merge it myself later (i've quite some backlog to
merge already for the short term, but it can go in queue)

> Marc/Andrea, what do you think?  Any holes to poke in this here patch?

didn't check it yet.

Andrea