Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:37:41 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: MM patches against 2.5.31 |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:31:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I like the magical-removal-just-before-free, and my gut feel is that > > it'll provide a cleaner end result. > > For the record, I'd rather see explicite removal everwhere. We received > a number of complaints along the lines of "I run my app immediately after > system startup, and it's fast, but the second time it's slower" due to > the lazy page reclaim in early 2.4. Until there's a way to make LRU > scanning faster than page allocation, it can't be lazy. >
I think that's what Rik was referring to.
But here, "explicit removal" refers to running lru_cache_del() prior to the final put_page, rather than within the context of the final put_page. So it's a different thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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