Re: vm lock contention reduction

Rik van Riel
2002-07-04T23:27:50Z

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> If the machine is instead full of anon pages then everything is still
> crap because the page reclaim code is scanning zillions of pages and not
> doing much useful with them.

This is something that can be fixed with rmap, because the
kernel _will_ be able to do something useful with the anon
pages.

Now we just need to get Arjan to tune the O(1) page launder
thing he was looking at ;)

Rik
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