Re: vm lock contention reduction

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
>> But it is, mmap() and anonymous memory don't trigger writeback.

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 05:48:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That's different.  Bill hit a problem just running tiobench.
> We can run balance_dirty_pages() when a COW copyout is performed,
> which will approximately improve things.
> But the whole idea of the dirty memory thresholds just seems bust,
> really.  Because how do you pick the thresholds?  40%.  Bah.

I don't know what the answer should be, but I can certainly demonstrate
this in a rather uninteresting situation (4GB, 4cpu's, 1 disk, 16 tasks).

But I can concur with that evaluation. In my esteem fixed fractions of
memory don't have a very direct relationship to what's going on.


Cheers,
Bill
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