From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030826AbXCTBGs (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030827AbXCTBGs (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51861 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030826AbXCTBGr (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:47 -0400 Message-ID: <45FF33A5.7010909@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:45 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel CC: linux-mm Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] split file and anonymous page queues #2 References: <45FF3052.0@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <45FF3052.0@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > Split the anonymous and file backed pages out onto their own pageout > queues. This we do not unnecessarily churn through lots of anonymous > pages when we do not want to swap them out anyway. > Please take this patch for a spin and let me know what goes well > and what goes wrong. In order to make testing easier, I have put some kernel RPMs up on http://people.redhat.com/riel/vmsplit/ Any benchmark results are welcome, especially bad ones. I want to make sure this thing runs as well as the current VM in every situation, while also fixing the problems described in my previous mail. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45FF33A5.7010909@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:45 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] split file and anonymous page queues #2 References: <45FF3052.0@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <45FF3052.0@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel Cc: linux-mm List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > Split the anonymous and file backed pages out onto their own pageout > queues. This we do not unnecessarily churn through lots of anonymous > pages when we do not want to swap them out anyway. > Please take this patch for a spin and let me know what goes well > and what goes wrong. In order to make testing easier, I have put some kernel RPMs up on http://people.redhat.com/riel/vmsplit/ Any benchmark results are welcome, especially bad ones. I want to make sure this thing runs as well as the current VM in every situation, while also fixing the problems described in my previous mail. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org