Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:03:09 +0900 | From | IWAMOTO Toshihiro <> | Subject | Re: [VM PATCH] rotate_reclaimable_page fails frequently |
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At Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:37:08 -0500 (EST), Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Shantanu Goel wrote: > > > Ideally, for workloads that want to avoid paging as > > much as possible, we should perhaps have a mode where > > we never activate unmapped pages and let them all > > reside on the inactive list. mark_page_accessed() > > would simply move an unmapped page to the head of the > > inactive list on the 2nd reference. > > Clock-pro (Peter's implementation, I still need to fix mine), > should do the right thing automatically in situations like > this...
Really? IIRC, his patch used to have a logic to keep mapped pages hot, which is similar to vanilla linux's reclaim_mapped thing, but it seems to be commented out now.
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