Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:22:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:22:27 -0400 Received: from 2-210.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.210]:58066 "EHLO 2-210.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:22:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:26:24 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Andrew Morton cc: William Lee Irwin III , lkml Subject: Re: [patch] adjustments to dirty memory thresholds In-Reply-To: <3D6D477C.F5116BA7@zip.com.au> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org 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: 908 Lines: 27 On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > But sigh. Pointlessly scanning zillions of dirty pages and doing > nothing with them is dumb. So much better to go for a FIFO snooze on a > per-zone waitqueue, be woken when some memory has been cleansed. But not per-zone, since many (most?) allocations can be satisfied from multiple zones. Guess what 2.4-rmap has had for ages ? Interested in a port for 2.5 on top of 2.5.32-mm2 ? ;) [I'll mercilessly increase your patch queue since it doesn't show any sign of ever shrinking anyway] cheers, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/