Re: [PATCH][RFC] slabnow

Andrew Morton
2002-09-09T04:44:46Z

Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> On Saturday 07 September 2002 16:06, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that
> > + * it also takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in
> > + * mind we age equal percentages of the lru and ageable caches.
> > + * This should balance the seeks generated by these structures.
> > + */
>
> It's not a reliable assumption, for example, what is the relation between an
> skbuff and a disk seek?

Of course. But all the caches in question happen to be filesystem
ones. I can live with that...