linux-kernel - Re: [patch 10/19] No Reclaim LRU Infrastructure

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20080111133048.FD5C.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:36:03 +0900
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/19] No Reclaim LRU Infrastructure

Hi Rik

> +config NORECLAIM
> +	bool "Track non-reclaimable pages (EXPERIMENTAL; 64BIT only)"
> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && 64BIT
> +	help
> +	  Supports tracking of non-reclaimable pages off the [in]active lists
> +	  to avoid excessive reclaim overhead on large memory systems.  Pages
> +	  may be non-reclaimable because:  they are locked into memory, they
> +	  are anonymous pages for which no swap space exists, or they are anon
> +	  pages that are expensive to unmap [long anon_vma "related vma" list.]

Why do you select to default is NO ?
I think this is really improvement and no one of 64bit user
hope turn off without NORECLAIM developer :)


- kosaki


--
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/