Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:22:10 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: l On Tuesday 03 April 2001 11:03, Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > Hi,

Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

Hi, The patch in the last message was scrambled. The last two lines belong to the previous fragment. Here is the correct beast. Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -u -r --exclude-from=ex.txt linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c --- linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Apr 1 18:5

[PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

Hi, This patch does two things. One it applies pressure to the icache and dcache, from kswapd, when they grow or possibly become shrinkable. The idea being not to let them grow to the point that they start being the source of vm pressure - this seems to be happening with the current algorithm.