Oliver Xymoron wrote: > >Can we get you to agree that basically all subpage objects are immovable? > No. Certainly not in the general case, and I think Josh found ways to handle the dcache case. If we can simply free the old objects, we don't actually have to move the hot ones, as he points out.
> >And as a consequence that garbage collecting at subpage levels doesn't >guarantee freeing up any pages that can then be given up to other >subsystems in response to VM pressure? The GC must think in terms of pages >to actually make progress. > >One of the design goals of slab by the way is that objects of a similar >type will end up having similar lifetimes, avoiding some of the worst >cases of sub-page allocations. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
