Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:49:53 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks |
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:21:48PM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > Ok, sorry. Kernel development is proceding at a furious pace and I sometimes > lose track.
No problem :).
> I seem to remember that people were impressed by classzone, but that the > implementation was very non-trivial and hard to grok. One of the reasons
Yes. Classzone is certainly more complex.
> There is no such thing as 'under swap'. There are lots of loadpatterns that > will generate different kinds of memory pressure. Just calling it 'under > swap' gives entirely the wrong impression.
Sorry for not being precise. I meant one of those load patterns.
> 'rivaling virtual memory' code. Energies spent on Rik's VM will yield far > higher differential improvement.
I've spent efforts on classzone as well, and since I think it's way superior approch I'll at least port it on top of 2.4.0-test9 as soon as time permits to generate some number.
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