From: Louis Garcia <louisg00@bellsouth.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rik van Riel's vm-rmap
Date: 28 Jan 2002 19:07:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1012262826.1634.1.camel@tiger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201280613510.32617-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201280613510.32617-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
Does this patch work well with Andrew's low-latency patch?
--Louis
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 03:21, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2002, Louis Garcia wrote:
>
> > Does he still use classzones as the basis for the vm? I thought that
> > linux was trying to get away from classzones for better NUMA support in
> > 2.5??
>
> Nope. I've done a few modifications:
>
> 1) the IMHO inflexible classzone stuff has been removed
>
> 2) we have reverse mappings, so we can do our pageout
> scan by physical address
>
> 3) this in turn means the active, inactive_dirty and
> inactive_clean lists are per zone ... allowing us
> to scan only in those zones where we actually need
> to free pages
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
> --
> "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS"
> -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
>
> http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-29 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-28 4:56 Rik van Riel's vm-rmap Louis Garcia
2002-01-28 5:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-28 8:21 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 0:07 ` Louis Garcia [this message]
2002-01-29 0:12 ` Robert Love
2002-01-29 0:14 ` Louis Garcia
2002-01-29 0:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 0:56 ` Louis Garcia
2002-01-29 0:19 ` Robert Love
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2002-01-29 1:39 Alex Davis
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