From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA09665 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:25:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:10:11 +0100 (CET) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Steve Bergman , Benjamin Redelings I , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Alan Cox , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > I have a new revolutionary patch. The main thing is that I killed kswapd > > just to make Rik happy ;). > > You may have made Rik happy, Not even that -- I really like the concept of a separate thread doing the much needed page freeing... > but you totally missed the reason for kswapd. And while your > patch looked interesting (a lot cleaner than the previous ones, > and I _like_ patches that remove code), the fact that you killed > kswapd means that it is essentially useless. Yup -- a definite No-No. (just to make sure that nobody would have really gotten the impression that I would be happy with the removal of kswapd) cheers, Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue? +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/~riel | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org