Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three

Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13T14:10:02Z

On Thursday 11 July 2002 02:47, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > A lot of it should be fairly simple. We have tons of pagecache-intensive
> > workloads. But we have gaps when it comes to the VM. In the area of
> > page replacement.
>
> Umm, page replacement is about identifying the working set
> and paging out those pages which are not in the working set.
>
> None of the benchmark examples you give have anything like
> a working set.

What we need is a short C program that similates a working set. I
believe we discussed such a thing briefly at Ottawa.

This is just random-fu. The main challenge is making it short and
sweet.

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Daniel