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Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)

Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 6:28 am

> I'm sure somebody will eventually write an OLS paper or something on the 
quoted text> advisability of making swapping decisions with 4k granularity when disks 
> really want bigger I/O transactions. 

Funnily enough someone thought of that many years ago. They even added
and documented it, then they made it adjustable.

See the vm section of Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Alan
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What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Thu Oct 11, 9:11 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Oct 13, 6:05 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, James Bottomley, (Sun Oct 14, 6:24 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Luben Tuikov, (Sun Oct 14, 8:45 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 2:51 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Luben Tuikov, (Mon Oct 15, 4:37 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Sun Oct 14, 7:45 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, James Bottomley, (Mon Oct 15, 9:10 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:51 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Mon Oct 15, 2:00 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 4:36 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Mon Oct 15, 1:25 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 6:54 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 15, 2:46 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Bill Davidsen, (Wed Oct 17, 7:43 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 2:33 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Oct 15, 2:00 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Oct 15, 10:00 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Garrett, (Mon Oct 15, 2:56 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 15, 9:08 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Oct 15, 4:52 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Sun Oct 14, 9:45 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 4:04 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Wed Oct 17, 1:34 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Wed Oct 17, 2:07 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 15, 9:21 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Mon Oct 15, 10:51 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Douglas Gilbert, (Mon Oct 15, 10:46 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 15, 9:29 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 15, 1:44 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 15, 9:35 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Loïc Grenié, (Mon Oct 15, 6:32 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:09 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Julian Calaby, (Mon Oct 15, 5:06 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 6:08 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Mon Oct 15, 1:33 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Mon Oct 15, 10:54 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 16, 12:04 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Tue Oct 16, 12:21 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 1:00 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 16, 12:11 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 12:15 am)

OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?), Nick Piggin, (Mon Oct 15, 9:37 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 16, 4:37 pm)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Oct 15, 11:55 pm)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 16, 2:59 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 12:38 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Tue Oct 16, 2:38 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 16, 6:28 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Tue Oct 16, 7:59 pm)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 5:31 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 16, 3:34 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rogier Wolff, (Thu Oct 18, 9:00 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Fri Oct 19, 2:49 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rogier Wolff, (Fri Oct 19, 3:21 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., , (Tue Oct 16, 12:10 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 12:45 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 15, 7:40 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Pavel Machek, (Sat Oct 20, 5:50 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:52 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Pavel Machek, (Sat Oct 20, 5:48 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Nick Piggin, (Mon Oct 15, 11:08 am)

Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., David Newall, (Tue Oct 16, 2:22 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, David Newall, (Sun Oct 14, 1:54 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Sun Oct 14, 1:46 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Sun Oct 14, 7:36 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 15, 1:44 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:26 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Wilfried Klaebe, (Mon Oct 15, 4:29 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Oct 15, 12:08 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 15, 1:10 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Mon Oct 15, 11:06 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 16, 6:19 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 3:54 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 16, 3:54 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 4:55 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Gabor Gombas, (Wed Oct 17, 5:48 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Wed Oct 17, 5:04 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Wed Oct 17, 1:23 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 16, 5:49 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Tue Oct 16, 4:34 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 4:56 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 4:18 pm)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 1:56 am)

Re: What still uses the block layer?, Tilman Schmidt, (Sun Oct 14, 6:35 pm)

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