Re: [PATCH][RFC] slabnow

Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09T05:14:14Z

On Monday 09 September 2002 06:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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...

Sure. And we know what to do about it when it does get around to
breaking.

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Daniel