Re: 2.1.76, nfs client, and memory fragmentation

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 10:55:43 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 kwrohrer@enteract.com wrote:
>
> I can definitely feel pauses (it feels like more pauses than there ought
> to be) but they are of finite length so far.

Yes. That was why I'm nervous about it. I'll put it into 2.1.77 now that I
did it anyway, to get more people to test it out and comment on it, but
we'll have to keep this in mind.

> Meanwhile, is there a semblance of reverse page table I haven't found yet?
> I can find the pages I want to shuffle around by physical address, but I
> need the task and page structs in order to do it, and brute-force searching
> just isn't worth it...

No, no reverse page tables. The data structures to keep them up-to-date
worries me (it would essentially involve doubling all the page tables). It
comes up every once in a while, but I'd really like to avoid it if at all
possible.

Linus