Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Rik van Riel's vm-rmap | From | Louis Garcia <> | Date | 28 Jan 2002 19:07:06 -0500 |
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Does this patch work well with Andrew's low-latency patch?
--Louis
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 03:21, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 27 Jan 2002, Louis Garcia wrote: > > > Does he still use classzones as the basis for the vm? I thought that > > linux was trying to get away from classzones for better NUMA support in > > 2.5?? > > Nope. I've done a few modifications: > > 1) the IMHO inflexible classzone stuff has been removed > > 2) we have reverse mappings, so we can do our pageout > scan by physical address > > 3) this in turn means the active, inactive_dirty and > inactive_clean lists are per zone ... allowing us > to scan only in those zones where we actually need > to free pages > > regards, > > Rik > -- > "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" > -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ >
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