Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 0/2] mm: memory policy for page cache allocation

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:30:12PM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote:
>> I'm sorry if this is confusing, personal terminology usually gets in the 
>> way.
>> The idea is that just like for the page allocation policy (your current 
>> code), if you wanted, you would have a global, default page cache 
>
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:13:54AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Having both a per process page cache and a global page cache policy
> would seem like overkill to me.
> And having both doesn't make much sense anyways, because when the 
> system admin wants to change the global policy to free memory
> on nodes he would still need to worry about conflicting per process policies 
> anyways. So as soon as you have process policy you cannot easily
> change global anymore.

Ray, would being able to change the default policy via kernel command-
line options (and perhaps sysctl) suffice? It seems that a global
default and some global state (e.g. per-cpu state) should largely
capture what you're after. If not, could you clarify where it doesn't?

Also, this switch statement stuff is getting a little hairy; maybe
it's time to bring in mempolicy_ops. Or at least trudging through the
switch () statements is turning into a moderate amount of work for me.


-- wli