>>>>> "hans" == Hans Reiser <hans@reiser.to> writes:
Hi
>> Every time we have tried to keep the caches completely separate, we
>> have ended up losing the ability to balance the various caches against
>> each other. The major advantage of a common set of LRU lists is that
>> it gives us a basis for a balanced VM.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stephen
hans> If I understand Juan correctly, they fixed this issue. Aging 1/64th of the
hans> cache for every cache evenly at every round of trying to free pages should be an
hans> excellent fix. It should do just fine at the task of handling a system with
hans> both ext3 and reiserfs running.
hans> Was this Juan's code that did this? If so, kudos to him.
I am working in that also, but in the merging of all the caches
allways than possible. I.e. Rik and me done the defered swap patch, I
am finising the defered mmap page write and after that I will try the
defered shm code (I need to read the shm code first :()
Later, Juan.
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