Re: Results: 2.2.0-pre5 vs arcavm10 vs arcavm9 vs arcavm7

Linus Torvalds
1999-01-07T20:27:59Z

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> The changes in 2.2.0-pre5 looks really cool! I think the only missing
> thing that I would like to see in is my calc_swapout_weight() thing. This
> my change would avoid swap_out() to stall too much the system in presence
> of huge tasks and so it would allow the VM to scale better...

Note that if swap_out swaps something out, it will always return 1 (it has
to, as it sleeps), and that in turn will make us decrement our counter,
which will make us stop paging things out soon enough..

So I really don't think it's a scaling issue either.

Linus