Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:37:17 -0700 | From | "Tim Pepper" <> | Subject | Re: [RFT][PATCH] mm: drop behind |
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On 7/9/07, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > Use the read-ahead code to provide hints to page reclaim. > > This patch has the potential to solve the streaming-IO trashes my > desktop problem. > > It tries to aggressively reclaim pages that were loaded in a strong > sequential pattern and have been consumed. Thereby limiting the damage > to the current resident set.
Interesting...
Would it make sense to tie this into (finally) making POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE something more than a noop?
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