From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: raybry@sgi.com, mort@wildopensource.com, pj@sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hilgeman@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:07:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050222000710.5ad0d8c1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222075304.GA778@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> app designers very frequently think that the VM gets its act wrong (most
> of the time for the wrong reasons), and the last thing we want to enable
> them is to hack real problems around.
Not really. Memory reclaim tries to predict the future and expects some
sort of "average" workload. For some workloads that prediction is
hopelessly wrong. Although we could surely provide manual hinting
machinery which is less crude than this proposal.
> . enable users to
> specify an 'allocation priority' of some sort, which kicks out the
> pagecache on the local node - or something like that.
Yes, that would be preferable - I don't know what the difficulty is with
that. sys_set_mempolicy() should provide a sufficiently good hint.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-22 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-14 15:44 Martin Hicks
2005-02-15 3:37 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-16 19:56 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-21 19:27 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-21 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 22:12 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-21 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 23:52 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-21 22:28 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-21 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 23:01 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-22 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-22 8:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-02-22 8:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-22 17:29 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-22 11:26 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-22 18:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 18:59 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-22 19:03 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-23 0:14 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-01 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-21 21:52 ` Nish Aravamudan
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