Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:20:21 +0100 | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vma limited swapin readahead |
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:45:04PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > One solution could be to put (most of) the swapin readahead > pages on the inactive_dirty list, so pressure by readahead > on the resident pages is smaller and the not used readahead > pages are reclaimed faster.
Shouldn't they be on inactive_clean anyway? They are not mapped (if I read Stephens comment correctly) and are clean (because we just read them in).
So if we have to put it there explicitly, we have at least a performance bug, don't we?
Or do I still not get the new linux mm design? ;-(
Totally clueless
Ingo Oeser
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