Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:35:43 -0500 | From | "Mike Frysinger" <> | Subject | Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache |
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On 1/19/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Luckily, there are actually good, robust solutions for your higher > order allocation problem. Do higher order allocations at boot time, > modifiy userspace applications, or set up otherwise-unused, or easily > reclaimable reserve pools for higher order allocations. I don't > understand why you are so resistant to all of these approaches?
in a nutshell ...
the idea is to try and generalize these things
your approach involves tweaking each end solution to maximize the performance
our approach is to teach the kernel some more tricks so that each solution need not be tweaked
these are at obvious odds as they tackle the problem by going in pretty much opposite directions ... yours leads to a tighter system in the end, but ours leads to much more rapid development and deployment -mike - 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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