From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Consistent page aging....
Date: 25 Jul 2001 10:08:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18zhdgff6.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107251249180.20326-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On 25 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> > >
> > > > We had to be able to age pages without allocating swap space...
> > >
> > > I don't see any technical reasons why we can't do this. Doing it
> > > without adding many extra special cases would require some thinking
> > > but nothing fundamental says you can't have anonymous pages in the
> > > active list.
> >
> > Right.
>
> Except that for - presumably dbench-related ? - reasons
> Linus and Davem seem to be vetoeing this change.
Hmm. I haven't seen a patch for it, and I haven't seen the change being
vetoed by Linus and Davem. So I'd have to have more context to comment.
Eric
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107250416230.2823-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
2001-07-25 10:10 ` Consistent page aging Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-25 10:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-25 15:49 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-25 16:08 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-07-25 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-26 7:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-25 16:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-26 10:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-26 14:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-27 23:45 ` Jordi Polo
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