Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages -v10 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:05:24 +0200 |
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> My main worry has always been the effects of this on some strange load, > not the stability itself. > > > And have we even seen stats for it yet? We know that it shouldn't > > affect the vast majority of loads (not mapping shared writable), but > > it won't be fixing any problem on them either; and we've had reports > > that it does fix the issue, but at what perf cost? (I may have missed) > > _Exactly_. This is why I think earlier rather than later is better. > > Sitting in -mm won't get us any new unexpected load cases - only more of > the same that hasn't shown any huge flags per se (although the dirty limit > discussion clearly shows people are at least thinking about it).
one options it to ask the distributions to put this into their more experimental kernels for a bit to give it a broader exposure... it's still a bit small but at least broader than "kernel developers"...
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