Re: [BENCHMARKS] Namesys VM patches improve kbuild

William Lee Irwin III
2004-01-22T08:16:23Z

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:19:01PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hmm, I actually did misread it a bit. The ratio is:
> nr_pages * zone->nr_active / (zone->nr_inactive * 2)
> Which is nr_pages if the active list is size we want.
> So its not so bad as I thought. Scaling by nr_pages would
> seem to couple it strongly with free pages though. My
> patch makes it more independent. No I don't know if thats
> good or not, it would obviously need a lot of testing.

Could something symbolic be banged out to represent this "desired
(in)active_list size" to reduce confusion? You're not the only one
needing to review various calculations twice over or more at every
turn.

-- wli