From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:50:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070618045045.GH6909@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706171907360.26680@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> Is it? Last I looked it had reverted to handing out reverse-contiguous
>> pages.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:08:41PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I thought that was fixed? Bill Irwin was working on it.
> But the contiguous pages usually only work shortly after boot. After
> awhile memory gets sufficiently scrambled that the coalescing in the I/O
> layer becomes ineffective.
It fell off the bottom of my priority queue, sorry.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-18 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-14 19:38 [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 01/14] Define functions for page cache handling clameter
2007-06-14 19:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-14 19:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 20:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 02/14] Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_user clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 03/14] Use page_cache_xx function in mm/filemap.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 04/14] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/page-writeback.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 05/14] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/truncate.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 06/14] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/rmap.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 07/14] Use page_cache_xx in mm/filemap_xip.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 08/14] Use page_cache_xx in mm/migrate.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 09/14] Use page_cache_xx in fs/libfs.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 10/14] Use page_cache_xx in fs/sync clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 11/14] Use page_cache_xx in fs/buffer.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 12/14] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/mpage.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 13/14] Use page_cache_xxx in mm/fadvise.c clameter
2007-06-14 19:38 ` [patch 14/14] Use page_cache_xx in fs/splice.c clameter
2007-06-14 20:06 ` [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support Andrew Morton
2007-06-14 21:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-14 21:25 ` Dave McCracken
2007-06-14 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-14 21:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-14 22:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-15 0:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15 1:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-15 2:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15 2:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-15 2:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-15 9:03 ` David Chinner
2007-06-14 23:30 ` David Chinner
2007-06-14 23:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-15 0:29 ` David Chinner
2007-06-15 15:05 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-06-17 1:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-17 5:02 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-18 2:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-18 3:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-18 4:50 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-06-14 23:54 ` David Chinner
2007-07-02 18:16 ` Badari Pulavarty
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