Re: Rik van Riel's vm-rmap

[Louis Garcia <louisg00@bellsouth.net>]

Does this patch work well with Andrew's low-latency patch?

--Louis


On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 03:21, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2002, Louis Garcia wrote:
> 
> > Does he still use classzones as the basis for the vm? I thought that
> > linux was trying to get away from classzones for better NUMA support in
> > 2.5??
> 
> Nope.  I've done a few modifications:
> 
> 1) the IMHO inflexible classzone stuff has been removed
> 
> 2) we have reverse mappings, so we can do our pageout
>    scan by physical address
> 
> 3) this in turn means the active, inactive_dirty and
>    inactive_clean lists are per zone ... allowing us
>    to scan only in those zones where we actually need
>    to free pages
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik
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