Re: Andrea VM changes

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo_at_conectiva.com.br)
Date: 08/30/03

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    Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:11:49 -0300 (BRT)
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>, Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>

    On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

    >
    > > that's true for only one patch, the others are pretty orthogonal after
    > > Andrew helped splitting them:
    > > 05_vm_03_vm_tunables-4
    > > 05_vm_05_zone_accounting-2
    > > 05_vm_06_swap_out-3
    > > 05_vm_07_local_pages-4
    > > 05_vm_08_try_to_free_pages_nozone-4
    > > 05_vm_09_misc_junk-3
    > > 05_vm_10_read_write_tweaks-3
    > > 05_vm_13_activate_page_cleanup-1
    > > 05_vm_15_active_page_swapout-1
    > > 05_vm_16_active_free_zone_bhs-1
    > > 05_vm_17_rest-10
    > > 05_vm_18_buffer-page-uptodate-1
    > > 05_vm_20_cleanups-3
    > > 05_vm_21_rt-alloc-1
    > > 05_vm_22_vm-anon-lru-1
    > > 05_vm_23_per-cpu-pages-3
    > > 05_vm_24_accessed-ipi-only-smp-1
    > > 05_vm_25_try_to_free_buffers-invariant-1
    >
    > Indeed, you are right.
    >
    > I'll start looking at them Monday. I'll keep you in touch. Thanks.

    Andrea,

    Would you mind to explain me 05_vm_06_swap_out-3 ?

    I see you change shrink_cache, try_to_free_pages_zone, etc.

    Can you please give me a detailed explanation of the changes there?

    I appreciate very much.

    I'll keep looking at other patches for now.

    Thanks
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