Re: Subtle MM bug

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>  - gets rid of the complex "best mm" logic and replaces it with the
>    round-robin thing as discussed.

This could help IO clustering as well, which should be good
whenever we want to swap the data back in ;)

>  - it cleans up and simplifies the MM "priority" thing. In fact, right now
>    only one priority is ever used,

Sounds great.

In the week that I've been offline I have been working on
page_launder and doing a few other improvements to the VM.

Once I get the time to clean everything up I think we can
take 2.4 to a slightly better performance level without
having to change anything big.

regards,

Rik (at linux.conf.au)
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