On Friday 12 July 2002 00:38, Andrew Morton wrote:

But yes, at some point you do need to stop carving away at the
clean pagecache and wait on writeback completion.  Not sure
how to balance that.

Alert alert!  We're supposed to be benchmarking rmap, not fixing the
world just now.  We should just ensure that our rmap and non-rmap
kernels are equally crippled with respect to purging of streaming
IO, unless we have a very specific reason why the situation should
be affected by the difference in scanning strategies.

-- 
Daniel
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