Re: [PATCH] MM fix & improvement

[Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> On 9 Jan 1999, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> >
> > OK, here it goes. Patch is unbelievably small, and improvement is
> > BIG.
> 
> Looks good. Especially the fact that once again performance got a lot
> better by _removing_ some silly heuristics that didn't actually work.
> 

Yes, that's the thing that I like with changes, too.
Let's remove anything that can be removed. :)

I'm just looking into buffer reference issue you mentioned.

I already noticed that part of code that was dealing with buffer
reference in shrink_mmap() disappeared some time ago. But I didn't
have a slightest clue that fs/buffer.c survived such mass deletia, as
one I just found in there. :)

I'll implement simple buffer->page reference functionality, benchmark
it and let you know what I've found.

At this point, I think it will improve things, but let's wait and see.

Regards,
-- 
Zlatko
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