On August 20, 2001 10:16 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > > Find riel's message with topic "VM tuning" to linux-mm, then take a look
> > > > at the 4th aging option.
> > > >
> > > > That one _should_ be able to make us remove all kinds of "hacks" to do
> > > > drop behind, and also it should keep hot/warm active memory _in cache_
> > > > for more time.
> > >
> > > I looked at it yesterday. The problem is, it loses the information about *how*
> > > a page is used: pagecache lookup via readahead has different implications than
> > > actual usage.
>
> And ah, I forgot something here.
>
> Your statement which says "pagecache lookup via readahead has different
> implications than actual usage" is not really correct.
>
> If you only consider "hot" pages as "pages which have been touched",
> you're going to (potentially) fuck heavy streaming IO workloads.
"Hot" pages are pages that have been touched more than once. The idea of
use-once (on the read side) is to retain the readahead pages just long enough
to use them, and not a lot longer. If you've seen streaming IO pages getting
evicted before being used, I'd like to know about it because something is
broken in that case.
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