From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] adjustments to dirty memory thresholds
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:26:24 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0208282124550.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D6D477C.F5116BA7@zip.com.au>
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But sigh. Pointlessly scanning zillions of dirty pages and doing
> nothing with them is dumb. So much better to go for a FIFO snooze on a
> per-zone waitqueue, be woken when some memory has been cleansed.
But not per-zone, since many (most?) allocations can be satisfied
from multiple zones. Guess what 2.4-rmap has had for ages ?
Interested in a port for 2.5 on top of 2.5.32-mm2 ? ;)
[I'll mercilessly increase your patch queue since it doesn't show
any sign of ever shrinking anyway]
cheers,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-29 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-28 4:39 [patch] adjustments to dirty memory thresholds Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 20:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-28 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 21:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-28 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-29 0:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-08-29 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-29 2:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-29 2:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-01 1:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-29 3:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-29 12:37 ` Rik van Riel
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