On Tuesday 08 January 2002 12:45 pm, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The first maintenance release of the 11th version of the reverse
> mapping based VM is now available. It fixes agpgart_be and the
> OOM killer. Tests on diskless machines are especially appreciated.
>
> This is an attempt at making a more robust and flexible VM
> subsystem, while cleaning up a lot of code at the same time.
> The patch is available from:
>
> http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11a
> and http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/
>
>
> My big TODO items for a next release are:
> - fix page_launder() so it doesn't submit the whole
> inactive_dirty list for writeout in one go
Hmm - is this necessarily a bad thing? For local disks, if you tell the
elevator to give these writes minimal priority (i.e. avoid/minimise impact on
other disk usage), writing out nice big chunks sounds like a good thing...
James.
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