Re: RE: on load control / process swapping

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

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:

> :There's one thing "wrong" with the drop-behind idea though;
> :it penalises data even when it's still in core and we're
> :reading it for the second or third time.
>
>     It's not dropping the data, it's dropping the priority.  And yes, it
>     does penalize the data somewhat.  On the otherhand if the data happens
>     to still be in the cache and you scan it a second time, the page priority
>     gets bumped up

But doesn't it get pushed _down_ again after the process has read
the data?  Or is this a part of the code outside of vm/* which I
haven't read yet?

regards,

Rik
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