* Re: [PATCH] don't write all inactive pages at once
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@ 2002-08-16 2:14 ` Bill Huey
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From: Bill Huey @ 2002-08-16 2:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rik van Riel; +Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, Bill Huey (Hui)
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:24:45PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the following patch, against current 2.4-rmap, makes sure we don't
> write the whole inactive dirty list to disk at once and seems to
> greatly improve system response time when under swap or other heavy
> IO load.
>
> Scanning could be much more efficient by using a marker page or
> similar tricks, but for now I'm going for the minimalist approach.
> If this thing works I'll make it fancy.
>
> Please test this patch and let me know what you think.
Hey,
Test your patch ? What ??!?!! :)
Actually, the interactivity is much better overall and it seems to
much less stupid stuff (by non-empirical feel) than it use to.
It's just a matter of seeing if my experiences are backed up by
others using this patch. ;)
(/me hopes)
bill
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