From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3/5 VM changes: dont-rotate-active-list.patch
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:44:53 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16139.61989.920240.358179@laputa.namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030709031217.21b54196.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton writes:
> Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> wrote:
> >
> > This patch modifies refill_inactive_zone() so that it scans active_list
> > without rotating it.
>
> I'm unconvinced. The scanning of the active list allows us to keep the
> referenced state uptodate and balanced across all pages.
>
With this patch active list is still scanned. The only difference is
that in !reclaim_mapped mode, mapped but unreferenced pages are left
behind scanning point instead of being thrown to the head of active list
(which supposed to be LRU, after all).
Nikita.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-09 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-09 8:47 Nikita Danilov
2003-07-09 10:12 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-09 10:44 ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
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