From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264535AbTGBU67 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:58:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264499AbTGBU67 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:58:59 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:55566 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264535AbTGBU4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:56:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:10:55 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Mel Gorman Cc: Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 Message-ID: <20030702211055.GC13296@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Mel Gorman , Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <200306250111.01498.phillips@arcor.de> <200306262100.40707.phillips@arcor.de> <200306270222.27727.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:00:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > You're right, I will need to write a proper RFC one way or the other. I > was thinking of using slabs because that way there wouldn't be need to > scan all of mem_map, just a small number of slabs. I have no basis for > this other than hand waving gestures though. Mel, This sounds much like something I was reading from Larry McVoy using page objects (like one level higher in magnatude than pages). I don't remember the URL, but there was something pretty extensive from Larry already explaining the concept.