Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:52:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages -v10 |
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:00 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Also Peter has made the tracking configurable. So there is a way > > to switch it off if it is harmful for some situations. > > Oh?
mapping_cap_account_dirty is not a way for a fs to switch this on and off?
> > You mean anonymous pages? Anonymous pages are always dirty unless > > you consider swap and we currently do not take account of dirty anonymous > > pages. With swap we already have performance problems and maybe there are > > additional issues to fix in that area. But these are secondary. > > I intent to make swap over NFS work next.
I am still a bit unclear on what you mean by "work." The only issue may be to consider the amount of swap pages about to be written out for write throttling. - 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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