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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Craig Kulesa <ckulesa@as.arizona.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:31:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020721213131.GA919@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207210245080.6770-100000@loke.as.arizona.edu>

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 04:24:55AM -0700, Craig Kulesa wrote:
> This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab
> pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch.  
> It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab
> pages.

In combination with the pte_chain in slab patch, this should at long last
enable reclamation of unused pte_chains after surges in demand. Can you
test this to verify that reclamation is actually done? (I'm embroiled in
a long debugging session at the moment.)


Thanks,
Bill

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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Craig Kulesa <ckulesa@as.arizona.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:31:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020721213131.GA919@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207210245080.6770-100000@loke.as.arizona.edu>

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 04:24:55AM -0700, Craig Kulesa wrote:
> This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab
> pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch.  
> It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab
> pages.

In combination with the pte_chain in slab patch, this should at long last
enable reclamation of unused pte_chains after surges in demand. Can you
test this to verify that reclamation is actually done? (I'm embroiled in
a long debugging session at the moment.)


Thanks,
Bill
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-21 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-21 11:24 [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27 Craig Kulesa
2002-07-21 11:24 ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-21 13:33 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-21 21:24   ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-21 21:24     ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-21 23:15     ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-21 23:15       ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-21 21:31 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-21 21:31   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22  7:08   ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-22  7:08     ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-22 18:54 ` Steven Cole
2002-07-22 18:54   ` Steven Cole
2002-07-22 22:17   ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-22 22:21   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22 22:21     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22 22:36     ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-22 22:36       ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-23  0:21       ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-23  4:36       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-23  4:36         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-23 11:45         ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-23 14:31       ` Steven Cole
2002-07-23 14:31         ` Steven Cole
2002-07-24 20:28         ` Steven Cole
2002-07-24 20:28           ` Steven Cole
2002-07-24 21:02           ` Steven Cole
2002-07-24 21:02             ` Steven Cole
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-25  0:12 Ed Tomlinson
2002-07-25 12:00 ` Craig Kulesa
2002-07-25 12:00   ` Craig Kulesa

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