From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:50:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:50:01 -0500 Received: from hermes.mixx.net ([212.84.196.2]:52998 "HELO hermes.mixx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:49:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A70AD03.1147641@innominate.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:47:31 +0100 From: Daniel Phillips Organization: innominate X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Rohland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM subsystem bug in 2.4.0 ? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Rohland wrote: > As of 2.4.1-pre we pin the pages by increasing the page count for > locked segments. No special list needed. Sure no special list is needed. But without a special list to park those pages on they will just circulate on the active/inactive lists, wasting CPU cycles and trashing cache. A special list would be an improvement, but is no burning issue. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/