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:/