On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:26:05 -0800
Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > But in this application which you are proposing, any correlation with
> > elapsed walltime is very slight. It's just the wrong baseline to use.
> > What is the *sense* in it?
>
> Ah - but time is cheap as dirt, and scales like the common cold virus.
> That makes it sinfully attractive for secondary affect placement cache
> hints like this.
>
> What else would you suggest?
>
> Same question applies, I suppose, to my zonelist caching patch that is
> sitting in your *-mm patch stack, where you also had doubts about using
> wall clock time to decay the fullnode hints.
Depends what it's doing. "number of pages allocated" would be a good
"clock" to use in the VM. Or pages scanned. Or per-cpu-pages reloads.
Something which adjusts to what's going on.
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