Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 2004 18:03:45 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [VM PATCH 2.6.6-rc3-bk5] Dirty balancing in the presence of mapped pages |
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Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Presently the kernel does not collection information > about the percentage of memory that processes have > dirtied via mmap until reclamation. Nothing analogous > to balance_dirty_pages() is being done for mmap'ed > pages. The attached patch adds collection of dirty > page information during kswapd() scans and initiation > of background writeback by waking up bdflush.
And what were the effects of this patch?
Did you consider propagating the pte dirtiness into the pageframe within page_referenced(), while we're there? - 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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