On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
> > avoid that)
>
> Now, I think the problem with the old code was that it didn't do _any_
> background page aging if "inactive" w
Linus writes:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
>
> I think it was Andreas Dilger..
Definitely NOT. I don't touch MM stuff. I do filesystems and LVM only.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
I think it was Andreas Dilger..
> /*
> * When we are background aging, we try to increase the page aging
> * information in the system.
> */
>
Marcello writes:
> Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
>
> /*
> * When we are background aging, we try to increase the page aging
> * information in the system.
> */
> if (!target)
> maxscan = nr_active_pages >>
>> > This is going to make all pages have age 0 on an idle system after some
>> > time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
>> > avoid that)
>
>There's another reason why I think the patch may be ok even without any
>added logic: not only does it simplify the code a
Forgot one comment..
> > This is going to make all pages have age 0 on an idle system after some
> > time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
> > avoid that)
There's another reason why I think the patch may be ok even without any
added logic: not only does it s
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Forgot one comment..
>
> > > This is going to make all pages have age 0 on an idle system after some
> > > time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
> > > avoid that)
>
> There's another reason why I think the pat
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