Re: [PATCH 0/39] mm: 2.6.17-pr1 - generic page-replacement framework and 4 new policies

Marcelo Tosatti
2006-07-26T10:03:59Z

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Now on the why, I still believe one of the advanced page replacement
> > algorithms are better than the currently implemented. If only because
> > they have access to more information, namely that provided by the
> > nonresident page tracking. (Which, as shown by Rik's OLS entry this
> > year, provides more interresting uses)
>
> Could you show us some workloads where this makes a significant
> difference?

http://www.linux-mm.org/PageReplacementTesting for instance.

Check the CLOCKPro/ARC papers for more details.