linux-kernel - Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709020440300.28046@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:44:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> by mixing large order pages into the regular lru, page aging gets rather
> unfair.

Not in general, only for particular loads. On average this is okay. It is 
consistent to age the whole block and not just a part of it.




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