Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932614AbXAWCEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:04:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932622AbXAWCEH (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:04:07 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:47074 "EHLO omx1.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932614AbXAWCEG (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:04:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:03:30 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Rik van Riel cc: Balbir Singh , Andrea Arcangeli , Niki Hammler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan Subject: Re: Why active list and inactive list? In-Reply-To: <45B569A4.3010006@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <45B55286.5060909@nobaq.net> <20070123003939.GY13798@opteron.random> <45B56575.10807@in.ibm.com> <45B569A4.3010006@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 16 On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > It would be really nice if we came up with a page replacement > algorithm that did not need many extra heuristics to make it > work... I guess the "clock" type algorithms are the most promising in that area. What happened to all those advanced page replacement endeavors? What is the most promising of those? You seem to have done a lot of work on those. - 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/