Re: [uPATCH] small kswapd improvement ???

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>]

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> > I remember the 1.1 or 1.2 days when Stephen reworked the
> > swap code and I played around with a small piece of
> > vmscan.c. Back then a simple bug was encountered and 'fixed'
> > by always starting the memory scan at adress 0, which gives
> > a highly unfair and inefficient aging process.
> 
> Ouch --- I wonder how much this is hurting 2.0.33.  I think I'll have
> to try that, and perhaps look at this for 2.0.34/LMP... 

It doesn't hurt _that_ much... Otherwise we wouldn't
have left it in the swapper code for three years :-)

It gives somewhat more than a smallish improvement
though...

Rik.
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