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Message-Id: <200710190149.31962.rob@landley.net> 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 -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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