From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030826AbXCTBGs (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030827AbXCTBGs (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51861 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030826AbXCTBGr (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:47 -0400 Message-ID: <45FF33A5.7010909@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:45 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel CC: linux-mm Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] split file and anonymous page queues #2 References: <45FF3052.0@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <45FF3052.0@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > Split the anonymous and file backed pages out onto their own pageout > queues. This we do not unnecessarily churn through lots of anonymous > pages when we do not want to swap them out anyway. > Please take this patch for a spin and let me know what goes well > and what goes wrong. In order to make testing easier, I have put some kernel RPMs up on http://people.redhat.com/riel/vmsplit/ Any benchmark results are welcome, especially bad ones. I want to make sure this thing runs as well as the current VM in every situation, while also fixing the problems described in my previous mail. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic.