Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-04T22:54:09Z

On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> GPF_ATOMIC things are what the machine is doing. Imagine a machine that
> acts as a router - it might not even be running any normal user processes

Argg, I didn't thought at that, now I understood the point... But I am
pretty sure we can continue to do async swapout also from the process
path. I think it works fine because now swapout is only a bank credit. It
works faster obviously because the process doesn't need to block and so
requesting many swapout at one time will drammatically improve swapout
I/O performances...

I am going to re-insert the poor kswapd now ;)

Thanks.

Andrea Arcangeli