From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264540AbTGCCGf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 22:06:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264810AbTGCCGf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 22:06:35 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:37051 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264540AbTGCCGe (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 22:06:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:20:47 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Larry McVoy , Mel Gorman , Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 Message-ID: <20030703022047.GM26348@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Larry McVoy , 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> <20030702211055.GC13296@matchmail.com> <20030703020445.GA4379@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030703020445.GA4379@work.bitmover.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:04:45PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > If we're thinking about the same thing, the basic idea was to store > information into a higher level object and make more intelligent paging > decisions based on the higher level object. In my brain, since I'm a > SunOS guy, that means that you store information in the vnode (inode) > which reflects the status of all pages backed by this inode. > Instead of trying to figure out what to do at the page level, you figure > out what to do at the object level. > Some postings about this: > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=topvn+mcvoy&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3cgeu9%24h96%40fido.asd.sgi.com&rnum=1 > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vnode+mcvoy&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=l0ojgnINN59t%40appserv.Eng.Sun.COM&rnum=12 > I can't find the writeup that you are thinking about. I know what you mean, > there was a discussion of paging algs and I went off about how scanning a > page a time is insane. If someone finds the URL let me know. I believe people are already on file object local page replacement, though it's more in the planning than implementation phase. -- wli