Re: What version of the kernel fixes these VM issues?

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:38:19 +0200


On August 25, 2001 10:09 am, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:00:05PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 6 page tables cached
>
> Although this won't help the basic problem, there could me as much as 100K
> cached in those page tables. I wonder if we could hook the pgt cache into
> the VM cache shrinking, so we can free most, if not all of this cache
> (rather than it being in the idle loop only).
>
> I'll look into it, produce a patch, but I'm not a VM hacker.

You know what a pte is so you're a VM hacker ;-)

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Daniel
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