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

[Linus Torvalds]

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
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