On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:
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> There's been several mail exchanges already on this thread.
> Let me try to summarize:
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> 3. Its almost tempting to make kswapd do the delalloc conversions,
> since it walks the inactive dirty list through page_launder().
> However, if you think about it, the conversion is an operation
> that logically sits between make a page delalloc & writing it out to
> disk. IMO, we need a seperate daemon to perform the conversions.
Ananth,
Its obvious there must be a daemon to allocate old unmapped pages and to
help write throttling of the delayed allocations.
Now I dont see any problem with write clustering (potentially converting
pages if we found delayed pages). Remember that page_launder() is called
by each process since 2.4.1pre2, so there is no big problem if kswapd
blocks trying to convert pages.
What I'm missing here?
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