Messages in this thread | | | From | Alex Kiernan <> | Subject | Re: buffer/swapping in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 + the 17th July patch | Date | 22 Jul 1997 09:14:37 GMT |
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Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> wrote: >Hmmm ... interesting. Please try the appended patch. It contains a few >changes:
> * run buffer wait queue only if recover_reusable_buffer_heads() > is called in brw_page() due get_more_buffer_heads()
> * Set PAGE_AGE_VALUE to PAGE_INITIAL_AGE+PAGE_ADVANCE in > linux/include/linux/pagemap.h ... should avoid over-aged > cache pages
>Are there any differences in bonnie? Is the debugging printk in >try_to_free_page() triggered?
Seems fine (to me at least), I'm not getting any debug printks from try_to_free_page anymore (your latest patch + the one liner change on wakeup_on_io). Bonnie numbers are within negligibly different between the two patch sets.
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