Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three

Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13T15:08:32Z

On Friday 12 July 2002 00:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But yes, at some point you do need to stop carving away at the
> clean pagecache and wait on writeback completion. Not sure
> how to balance that.

Alert alert! We're supposed to be benchmarking rmap, not fixing the
world just now. We should just ensure that our rmap and non-rmap
kernels are equally crippled with respect to purging of streaming
IO, unless we have a very specific reason why the situation should
be affected by the difference in scanning strategies.

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Daniel