Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:20:09 +0100
From: Rik van Riel <r...@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: [PATCH *] reverse mapping VM 7
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NOTE: this patch is completely untested, except for verifying that
it compiles ... but what do you want at 04:30 ? ;)
The 7th version of the reverse mapping based VM is now available.
This is an attempt at making a more robust and flexible VM
subsystem, while cleaning up a lot of code at the time. The patch
is available from:
http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.16-rmap-7
and http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/
The big TODO items for the _next_ release are:
- fix page_launder() so it doesn't submit the whole
inactive_dirty list for writeout in one go
- tune the balancing, under some strange loads I seem
to be able to trigger a livelock
rmap 7:
- clean up and document vmscan.c (me)
- reduce size of page struct, part one (William Lee Irwin)
- add rmap.h for other archs (untested, not for ARM) (me)
rmap 6:
- make the active and inactive_dirty list per zone,
this is finally possible because we can free pages
based on their physical address (William Lee Irwin)
- cleaned up William's code a bit (me)
- turn some defines into inlines and move those to
mm_inline.h (the includes are a mess ...) (me)
- improve the VM balancing a bit (me)
- add back inactive_target to /proc/meminfo (me)
rmap 5:
- fixed recursive buglet, introduced by directly
editing the patch for making rmap 4 ;))) (me)
rmap 4:
- look at the referenced bits in page tables (me)
rmap 3:
- forgot one FASTCALL definition (me)
rmap 2:
- teach try_to_unmap_one() about mremap() (me)
- don't assign swap space to pages with buffers (me)
- make the rmap.c functions FASTCALL / inline (me)
rmap 1:
- fix the swap leak in rmap 0 (Dave McCracken)
rmap 0:
- port of reverse mapping VM to 2.4.16 (me)
cheers,
Rik
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