From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx109.postini.com [74.125.245.109]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7243F6B0082 for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:07:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FB665B8.8000300@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:07:36 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing References: <1335861713-4573-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <4FB33A4E.1010208@gmail.com> <20120516065132.GC1769@cmpxchg.org> <4FB3A416.9010703@gmail.com> <20120517210849.GE1800@cmpxchg.org> <4FB5C5A7.6080000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FB5C5A7.6080000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: nai.xia@gmail.com Cc: Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Peter Zijlstra , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/17/2012 11:44 PM, Nai Xia wrote: > But I do think that Clock-pro deserves its credit, since after all > it's that research work firstly brought the idea of "refault/reuse > distance" to the kernel community. The ARC people did that, too. > Further more, it's also good > to let the researchers and the community to together have some > brain-storm of this problem if it's really hard to deal with in > reality. How much are researchers interested in the real world constraints that OS developers have to deal with? Often scalability is as much of a goal as being good at selecting the right page to replace... -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org