Re: [RFC PATCH 6/10] split anon and file LRUs

2007-11-06 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:28:19 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by > > real file systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by > > memory and swap ("anon"). T

Re: [RFC PATCH 6/10] split anon and file LRUs

2007-11-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by > real file systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by > memory and swap ("anon"). The latter includes tmpfs. If we split the memory backed from the disk backed pages then they a

[RFC PATCH 6/10] split anon and file LRUs

2007-11-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by real file systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by memory and swap ("anon"). The latter includes tmpfs. Eventually mlocked pages will be taken off the LRUs alltogether. A patch for that already exists and just needs to