On February 26, 2002 02:32 am, 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.
But this is not a fundamental issue, it's implementation. Whereas non-rmap
will always suck on large systems, for fundamental reasons that are unrelated
to the quality of the implementation.
> I'd love to see rmap
> in the main kernel, but it needs to get the scalability fixed first.
Yes.
> 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 ....
Yes, yes and yes.
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