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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>>>Maybe we need a NR_UNSTABLE that includes pinned pages?
>>
>>The point of what we decided on Sunday was that we want to count the
>>pages that we KNOW are easy to free. So all of these should be
>>taken out of the count before we take it.
>
>
> Unmapped clean pages are easily freeable and do not have these issues.
> Could we just use that for now? Otherwise we have to add counters to the
> categories that we do not track for now and take them out of the count.

Yup, I think that covers everything.

M.

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