Re: [PATCH] allocate page caches pages in round robin fasion

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:14 pm, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I don't like this approach using a dynamic counter. I think it would
> be better to add a new function that takes the vma and uses the offset
> into the inode for static interleaving (anonymous memory would still
> use the vma offset). This way you would have a good guarantee that the
> interleaving stays interleaved even when the system swaps pages in and
> out and you're less likely to get anomalies in the page distribution.

That sounds like a good approach, care to show me exactly what you mean with a 
patch? :)

Thanks,
Jesse
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