From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modified segq for 2.5
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:51:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D7D09D7.2AE5AD71@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209091622470.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> ...
> > > Hmmm indeed, I forgot this. Note that IO completion state is
> > > too late, since then you'll have already pushed other pages
> > > out to the inactive list...
> >
> > OK. So how would you like to handle those pages?
>
> Move them to the inactive list the moment we're done writing
> them, that is, the moment we move on to the next page. We
> wouldn't want to move the last page from /var/log/messages to
> the inactive list all the time ;)
The moment "who" has done writing them? Some writeout
comes in via shrink_foo() and a ton of writeout comes in
via balance_dirty_pages(), pdflush, etc.
Do we need to distinguish between the various contexts?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-15 14:24 [PATCH] modified segq for 2.5 Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 11:40 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-09 17:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 13:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 19:25 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 20:03 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 20:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-09 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:09 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-10 0:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 22:54 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 23:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 23:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 23:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-10 0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 0:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-10 1:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 1:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 2:02 ` Rik van Riel
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