Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 17:28:12 EST


On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:26:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > It doesn't --- that is part of the design. The vm scanner propagates
> >
> > And that's the inferior part of the design IMHO.
>
> Indeed, but physical page based aging is a definate
> 2.5 thing ... ;(

I'm talking about the fact that if you have a file mmapped in 1.5G of RAM
test9 will waste time rolling between LRUs 384000 pages, while classzone
won't ever see 1 of those pages until you run low on fs cache.

Andrea
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