Re: [PATCH *] rmap based VM #11a

[James A Sutherland]

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.