Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:37:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This patch implements the inactive_clean list spoken of during the VM summit. > The LRU tail pages will be unmapped and ready to free, but not freeed. > This gives reclaim an extra chance.
I thought we wanted to just track the number of unmapped clean pages and insure that they do not go under a certain limit? That would not require any locking changes but just a new zoned counter and a check in the dirty handling path.
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