--Louis
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 03:21, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2002, Louis Garcia wrote:
>
> > Does he still use classzones as the basis for the vm? I thought that
> > linux was trying to get away from classzones for better NUMA support in
> > 2.5??
>
> Nope. I've done a few modifications:
>
> 1) the IMHO inflexible classzone stuff has been removed
>
> 2) we have reverse mappings, so we can do our pageout
> scan by physical address
>
> 3) this in turn means the active, inactive_dirty and
> inactive_clean lists are per zone ... allowing us
> to scan only in those zones where we actually need
> to free pages
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
> --
> "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS"
> -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
>
> http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
>
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