On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > >> However when the zone reclaimer starts to reclaim pages, it will > >> remove all cold pages and not specifically pagecache pages. This > >> may affect performance of applications.
The reclaimer is passed a control structure that can be used to disable write to swap (if that is the concern). > I am open to suggestions on reclaim logic. My view is that we need > to selectively reclaim pagecache pages and not just call the > traditional reclaimer to freeup arbitrary type of pages. The traditional reclaim works fine if told what to do. Introducing another LRU list to do reclaim is a significant change to the VM, creates lots of overhead etc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
