Re: MM/VM todo list

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 16:13:27 EST

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On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > * VM: experiment with different active lists / aging pages
> > of different ages at different rates + other page replacement
> > improvements
> > * VM: Quality of Service / fairness / ... improvements
> * VM: Use kiobuf IO in VM instead buffer_head IO.

I'd vote for killing both bufer_head and kiobuf from VM.
Lokk at my pageio patch - VM doesn't know about the use of kiobufs
in the filesystem IO...

Christoph

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