Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:20:22 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> "Looks cleaner" is very important for me for maintenance reasons - having > behaviour that you cannot explain tends to result in more and more ad-hoc > hacks over time, and it just tends to get worse and worse.
Agreed.
> However, at the same time I'd really like to hear about improved > behaviour, not just "feels the same". And certainly not "(maybe even > worse.."
Hm, sorry for that. But that's what I see. Maybe the problem is now on a different field.
> The problematic part is that I suspect that _because_ there's a lot of > inactive pages, the VM layer won't even try to age the active ones. > Which will result in the inactive pages being re-circulated reasonably > quickly..
Do you think this re-circulation is _fast_ in current code? Maybe performance loss comes from this point?
BTW: I tried Andrea's brand new patch and have to admit it has a _big_ performance gain, though I understand you dislike the design very much.
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