From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:17:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:17:12 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:44710 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:17:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:17:48 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call Message-ID: <490220000.1046211468@flay> In-Reply-To: <20030225221602.GZ29467@dualathlon.random> References: <20030225171727.GN29467@dualathlon.random> <20030225174359.GA10411@holomorphy.com> <20030225175928.GP29467@dualathlon.random> <20030225185008.GF10396@holomorphy.com> <20030225191817.GT29467@dualathlon.random> <372680000.1046201260@flay> <20030225203001.GV29467@dualathlon.random> <417110000.1046206424@flay> <20030225211718.GY29467@dualathlon.random> <421460000.1046207575@flay> <20030225221602.GZ29467@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Sure, it is more expensive to use them, but all we care about is > complexity, and they solve the complexity problem just fine, so I > definitely prefer it. Cpu utilization during heavy swapping isn't a big > deal IMHO I totally agree with you. However the concerns others raised were over page aging and page stealing (eg from pagecache), which might not involve disk, but would also be slower. It probably need some tuning and tweaking, but I'm pretty sure it's fundamentally the right approach. M.