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, 8 Sep 2001 15:22:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:21:53 -0400 Received: from jive.SoftHome.net ([204.144.231.93]:41659 "EHLO softhome.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:21:41 -0400 From: "John L. Males" Organization: Toronto, Ontario, Canada To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:21:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Clarification of 2.4 VM Logic Reply-to: jlmales@softhome.net Message-ID: <3B9A3793.29128.408829@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am not part of the Kernel Mailing list. It would be greatly appreciated if I was copied in on any replies. I have successfully compiled the 2.4.9-ac9 version of the Kernel. I have read the details of the different VM paging varients as noted via the http://linux-mm.org/wiki/moin.cgi/PageAging. I have been following via LWN the issues and thoughts of the VM issues for the 2.4 kernel. After reviewing the "Page Aging" descriptions I choose to try "4 for PAGE_AGE_EXPUP". I have not had alot of time to abuse or use my system with this paging logic as yet, but the initial paces I have had the system through as a workstation suggest some promise. The clarification I want to seek is is the current method/logic of VM in the kernel just as noted per http://linux-mm.org/wiki/moin.cgi/PageAging or is there more to the logic than documented there? I ask, as I have some thoughts respecting paging logic. As I am not familar with the kernel internals, let alone remotely close to the required C/C++ skills to even modify most code, I could not answer this question myself, let alone experiment with the kernel code to see if any of my thoughts might be of some value. So before I ramble on with some possible thoughts, I thought I ask for the clarification in order to have a reasonable reference point to the thoughts I had. Regards, John L. Males Willowdale, Ontario Canada 08 September 2001 15:21 mailto:jlmales@softhome.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBO5p9xuAqzTDdanI2EQIszgCfSIrVg3Ca87SRuY3Wjp+4DS/VxBAAnAgH ExgeFIQF5L2oQAoX1wIKUeZ4 =GBth -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- "Boooomer ... Boom Boom, how are you Boom Boom" Boomer 1985 - February/2000