Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:17:35 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > you're right something might be different now > that we don't follow a swapout virtual address space order anymore
There's a patch in -mm which attempts to do so, and afair, succeeds.
However the performance seems to be crappy. Its main benefit at present is in reducing worst-case scheduling latencies (scan_swap_map).
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm2/broken-out/swapspace-layout-improvements-fix.patch - 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/
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