Re: load control demotion/promotion policy

[Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:34:30 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I agree, pageout in 2.6 needs to be finetuned a bit more
> to get that extra factor of 2 performance that's hiding
> in a dark corner.
> 
> However, I don't think that obviates the need for load
> control.  You have convinced me, though, that load
> control is an emergency thing and shouldn't be meant
> for regular use. 

We are in violent agreement then.

> Then again, I've wanted to work on load control for
> years and would like to use this opportunity to have
> some fun.
> 
> If you'd rather work on tuning the pageout code to make
> that faster, I'd be happy to play around a bit with the
> load control code ;))

I bet :-). I meant to save the load control stuff as a dessert, for later
(i.e. after the regressions are fixed where possible). Bad thinking I
reckon.

Roger
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