Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:29:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]] |
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> GPF_ATOMIC things are what the machine is doing. Imagine a machine that > acts as a router - it might not even be running any normal user processes
Argg, I didn't thought at that, now I understood the point... But I am pretty sure we can continue to do async swapout also from the process path. I think it works fine because now swapout is only a bank credit. It works faster obviously because the process doesn't need to block and so requesting many swapout at one time will drammatically improve swapout I/O performances...
I am going to re-insert the poor kswapd now ;)
Thanks.
Andrea Arcangeli
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