Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1997-11,: Re: page->pte_head, Was:[URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUESTED] production machines dying

# Re: page->pte_head, Was:[URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUESTED] production machines dying

Benjamin C.R. LaHaise (blah@kvack.org)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:21:11 -0500 (EST)

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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
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> ... combining the two approaches (defragmentation and preemptive anonymous
> page ageing) would be a win.

An interesting side effect of my mechanism (swapping now walked the
page_map) is that it did reduce fragmentation to some degree - pages would
tend to be swapped in contiguous chunks, rather it was just a bit more
likely than kswapd's freeing of randomly allocated pages.

-ben

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