Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:22:12 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/9] clockpro-clockpro.patch |
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> I think that final objective should be to abstract it away completly, > making it possible to select between different policies, allowing > further experimentation and implementations such as energy efficient > algorithms.
I'm not convinced. That might just make vmscan.c harder to read ;)
> About CLOCK-Pro itself, I think that a small document with a short > introduction would be very useful...
http://linux-mm.org/AdvancedPageReplacement
> > The HandCold rotation is driven by page reclaim needs. HandCold in turn > > drives HandHot, for every page HandCold promotes to hot HandHot needs to > > degrade one hot page to cold. > > Why do you use only two clock hands and not three (HandHot, HandCold and > HandTest) as in the original paper?
Because the non-resident pages cannot be in the clock. This is both because of space overhead, and because the non-resident list cannot be per zone.
I agree though, Peter's patch could use a lot more documentation.
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