From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:31:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:31:40 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:1805 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:31:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Russell King , Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: What version of the kernel fixes these VM issues? Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:38:19 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <20010824222924Z16116-32383+1243@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <20010825090959.A2561@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010825090959.A2561@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010825163138Z16182-32383+1333@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On August 25, 2001 10:09 am, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:00:05PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > 6 page tables cached > > Although this won't help the basic problem, there could me as much as 100K > cached in those page tables. I wonder if we could hook the pgt cache into > the VM cache shrinking, so we can free most, if not all of this cache > (rather than it being in the idle loop only). > > I'll look into it, produce a patch, but I'm not a VM hacker. You know what a pte is so you're a VM hacker ;-) -- Daniel