Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:28:58 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19pre1aa1 |
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On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > you care about how well the VM chooses which pages to swap out > > and which pages to keep in RAM. > > and for that the aging fair scan for the acessed bitflag has a chance to > be better than the unfair accessed bit handling in rmap that can lead to > not evaluating correctly the accessed-virtual-age of the pages.
Ummm, what do you mean by this ?
> Also threating mapped pages in a special manner is beneficial.
Note that -rmap already does this.
regards,
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