From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
ck kernel mailing list <ck@vds.kolivas.org>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:50:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825205045.GI2793@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408251621160.5145-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Con Kolivas wrote:
>> Added since 2.6.8.1-ck3:
>> +mapped_watermark.diff
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:22:32PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Sounds like a bad idea for file servers ;)
> Wouldn't it be better to lazily move these cached pages to
> a "cached" list like the BSDs have, and reclaim it immediately
> when the memory is needed for something else ?
> It should be easy enough to keep the cached data around and
> still have the cache pages easily reclaimable.
This will be unmapped and clean; but that's not certain to be enough.
We must ask at what cost comes aggressive caching.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-25 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-22 11:17 2.6.8.1-ck4 Con Kolivas
2004-08-22 18:15 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Hans Reiser
2004-08-22 21:37 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Con Kolivas
2004-08-23 17:04 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Joshua Schmidlkofer
2004-08-23 17:19 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-23 17:31 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Joshua Schmidlkofer
2004-08-23 21:48 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Con Kolivas
2004-08-23 23:34 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Con Kolivas
2004-08-24 9:28 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-24 9:43 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Con Kolivas
2004-08-24 9:54 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-25 20:22 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Rik van Riel
2004-08-25 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-25 20:56 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Rik van Riel
2004-08-25 21:02 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 0:10 ` 2.6.8.1-ck4 Con Kolivas
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