Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches

Rik van Riel
2007-03-04T01:27:04Z

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Different issue, isn't it? Rik wants to be smarter in figuring out which
> pages to throw away. More work per page == worse for you.

Being smarter about figuring out which pages to evict does
not equate to spending more work. One big component is
sorting the pages beforehand, so we do not end up scanning
through (and randomizing the LRU order of) anonymous pages
when we do not want to, or cannot, evict them anyway.

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