Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm improvements

[Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
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>>> > 2/5: vm-dont-rotate-active-list.patch
>>> >     Nikita's patch to keep more page ordering info in the active list.
>>> >     Also should improve system time due to less useless scanning
>>> >     Helps swapping loads significantly.
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>>>
>>It bugs me that this improvement is also applicable to 2.4.  if it makes
>>the same improvement there, we're still behind.
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>I suspect 2.4 won't see the gains from this, since active/inactive
>list location is hardly relevant for mapped pages there, due to the
>page table scanning algorithm.
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>

Yeah you're right.

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