Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268089AbTGIJ7q (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:59:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268065AbTGIJ7e (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:59:34 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:35540 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265904AbTGIJ5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:57:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:12:17 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3/5 VM changes: dont-rotate-active-list.patch Message-Id: <20030709031217.21b54196.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16139.54928.435252.933882@laputa.namesys.com> References: <16139.54928.435252.933882@laputa.namesys.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 519 Lines: 13 Nikita Danilov 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/