From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com>
Cc: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Subject: Re: [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:57:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030829185728.GA3846@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829184644.5968.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com>
[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.
Marc/Andrea, what do you think? Any holes to poke in this here patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-29 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 15:01 [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22 Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 14:57 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-08-29 17:55 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 18:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-29 18:46 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 18:57 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-08-29 19:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-29 19:46 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-29 19:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-29 20:20 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-08-30 5:01 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-20 13:39 ` A couple of 2.4.23-pre4 VM nits Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 2:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 5:32 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 14:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 14:51 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 15:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 15:28 ` Shantanu Goel
2003-09-21 15:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-21 18:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-29 19:11 ` [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22 Rahul Karnik
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