Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:48:42 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/16] mm: delayed page activation |
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:03:15PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > inter-reference distance, and therefore should be better protected(if ignore > > possible read-ahead effects). If we move re-accessed pages immediately into > > active_list, we are pushing them closer to danger of eviction. > > Huh? Pages in the active list are closer to the eviction? If it is > really so, then CLOCK-pro hijacks the meaning of active list in a very > unintuitive way. In the current MM active list is supposed to contain > hot pages that will be evicted last.
The page is going to active list anyway. So its remaining lifetime in inactive list is killed by the early move.
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