Re: [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages -v10

Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-23T17:22:18Z

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:00 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Also Peter has made the tracking configurable. So there is a way
> to switch it off if it is harmful for some situations.

Oh?

> You mean anonymous pages? Anonymous pages are always dirty unless
> you consider swap and we currently do not take account of dirty anonymous
> pages. With swap we already have performance problems and maybe there are
> additional issues to fix in that area. But these are secondary.

I intent to make swap over NFS work next.