On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Not to begin the flamewar, but no thanks. rmap-12f blows -aa away AFAIK
> > on this P200 w/ 64MB ram.
>
> rmap still sucks on large systems though. I'd love to see rmap
> in the main kernel, but it needs to get the scalability fixed first.
> The main problem seems to be pagemap_lru_lock ... Rik & crew
> know about this problem, but let's give them some time to fix it
> before rmap gets put into mainline ....
This isn't very near on my TODO list though, I've got
the following big items coming up shortly:
rmap 13: O(1) page_launder <- working on it now
rmap 14: pte-highmem support
In addition to this I'm merging some small pieces of code
with both Linus and Marcelo.
Making the locking more scaleable wrt. the pagemap_lru_lock
could be either a simple change or a rework of the way the
VM does locking. I'm not sure which way to go...
regards,
Rik
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