Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-08 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:36:23PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > I have not taken^Whad the time to check the kernel tree > and see if the RSS counting has indeed been made safe > everywhere. I have posted the one below a couple of times without it making it in. If you like ot please fold it into y

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > About the RSS ulimit proposal, have we resolved the correctness > of counting RSS in a process? I have not taken^Whad the time to check the kernel tree and see if the RSS counting has indeed been made safe everywhere. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-08 Thread afei
About the RSS ulimit proposal, have we resolved the correctness of counting RSS in a process? Fei On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi, > > here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the > Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done > for later 2.4 releases an

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:13:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > * VM: experiment with different active lists / aging pages > > > of different ages at different rates + other page replacement > > > improvements > >

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:27:38PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > No other then filesystem IO (page/buffercache) is actively tied > > to the VM, so there should be no problems. > > Not right now, no. But if you know what is possible > (and planned) with the kiobuf layer, you should think > twice

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO. > > > > > > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM. > > > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:20:24PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO. > > > > I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM. > > Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs > > in the filesystem IO... > > Could b

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > * VM: experiment with different active lists / aging pages > > > of different ages at different rates + other page replacement > > > improvements > > > * VM: Quality of Service

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > * VM: experiment with different active lists / aging pages > > of different ages at different rates + other page replacement > > improvements > > * VM: Quality of Service / fairness / ... improvements > * VM: Use kiobuf IO

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Probably 2.5 era: > * VM: physical->virtual reverse mapping, so we can do much > better page aging with less CPU usage spikes > * VM: move all the global VM variables, lists, etc. into the > pgdat struct for better NUMA scalability > * VM: per-node

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi, > > here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the > Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done > for later 2.4 releases and more complex things that really > have to be 2.5 things. > > Most of these can be found on http://

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the > > Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done > > for later 2.4 releases and more complex things that really > > have to be 2.5 thin

Re: MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi, > > here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the > Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done > for later 2.4 releases and more complex things that really > have to be 2.5 things. > > Most of these can be found on http:/

MM/VM todo list

2001-01-05 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done for later 2.4 releases and more complex things that really have to be 2.5 things. Most of these can be found on http://linux24.sourceforge.net/ too Trivial stuff: * VM: better