Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:20:24 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: MM/VM todo list |
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > * VM: experiment with different active lists / aging pages > > > of different ages at different rates + other page replacement > > > improvements > > > * VM: Quality of Service / fairness / ... improvements > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO. > > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM. > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs > in the filesystem IO...
Could be interesting ... but is it generalised enough to also work with eg. network IO ?
I won't kill this TODO item until I understand what exactly you want to achieve and why it would be a good thing (and until there is some kind of agreement about this idea).
Btw, http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/todo.shtml
regards,
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to loose...
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