Re: [PATCH] mm: evict streaming IO cache first

Linus Torvalds
2008-11-16T18:16:16Z

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Really, I think that the old approach of observing the scanner
> behaviour (rather than trying to predict it) was better.

That's generally true. Self-adjusting behaviour rather than a-priori rules
would be much nicer. However, we apparently need to fix this some way.
Anybody willing to re-introduce some of the old logic?

Linus