Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

2000-10-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: :> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: :> :> > Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back :> > performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out :> > doing synchronous writes? :> :> Because it is fixed in the patch I ma

Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back > > performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out > > doing synchronous writes? > > Because it is fixed in the patch I mailed yes

Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back > performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out > doing synchronous writes? Because it is fixed in the patch I mailed yesterday? regards, Rik -- "What you're running that pi

Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

2000-10-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out doing synchronous writes? I pointed out previously in a private email that page_launder() must be buggy as it stands now, you seem to have ignored that part (and the test-pr

TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
[MM TODO list, updated for october 2000] --- Here is the TODO list for the new VM. The only thing really needed for 2.4 is the OOM handler and a fix for the highmem deadlock. The page->mapping->flush() callback is really wanted by the journaling filesystem folks. The rest are mostly extra's tha

TODO list for new VM

2000-09-16 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, Here is the TODO list for the new VM. The only thing really needed for 2.4 is the OOM handler and the page->mapping->flush() callback is really wanted by the journaling filesystem folks. The rest are mostly extra's that would be nice; these things won't be pushed for inclusion except if it t