On Sun 06-02-11 10:13:41, Sorin Faibish wrote: > I was thinking to have a special track for all the writeback related > topics. Well, a separate track might be a bit too much I feel ;). I'm interested also in other things that are happening... We'll see what the program will be but I can imagine we can discuss for a couple of hours but that might be just a discussion in a small circle over a <enter preferable drink>. > I would like also to include a discussion on new cache writeback paterns > with the target to prevent any cache swaps that are becoming a > bigger problem > when dealing with servers wir 100's GB caches. The swap is the worst that > could happen to the performance of such systems. I will share my > latest findings > in the cache writeback in continuation to my previous discussion at > last LSF. I'm not sure what do you exactly mean by 'cache swaps'. If you mean that your application private cache is swapped out, then I can imagine this is a problem but I'd need more details to tell how big. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>