From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 04:10:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 04:09:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.mailbox.co.uk ([195.82.125.32]:38283 "EHLO smtp.mailbox.net.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 04:09:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:09:59 +0100 From: Russell King To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Daniel Phillips , lkml Subject: Re: What version of the kernel fixes these VM issues? Message-ID: <20010825090959.A2561@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010824222924Z16116-32383+1243@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nico@cam.org on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:00:05PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:00:05PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 6 page tables cached Although this won't help the basic problem, there could me as much as 100K cached in those page tables. I wonder if we could hook the pgt cache into the VM cache shrinking, so we can free most, if not all of this cache (rather than it being in the idle loop only). I'll look into it, produce a patch, but I'm not a VM hacker. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html