linux-kernel - Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:49:31 -0500
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...wizard.nl>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Nick Piggin <piggin@...erone.com.au>
Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)

On Thursday 18 October 2007 8:00:49 am Rogier Wolff wrote:
> So... IMHO, it would be useful to implement something that pages out
> chunks of memory larger than a single hardware page. This would reduce
> the size of the memory management tables (*), as well as improve disk
> throughput if things DO come to paging....

I believe that was more or less the topic of this paper:
  http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-73-78.pdf

Although these seem sort of tangentially related:
  http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v1-pages-369-384.pdf
  http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-125-130.pdf

Rob
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