Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:25:20 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Pages allocated with do_anonymous_page are not added to the active list. > as a result there is no aging information for a page until it is > unmapped. So we might be unmapping and allocating swap for shared pages
Right ok.
> I guess it is just more carefully papering over the existing problems.
If you are correct then I suspect the better behaviour is primarily coming from the balancing algorithms and the choices made rather than the quality of data suggested.
When Rik gets back off a plane this sounds like something that should be tested - one item at a time.
Alan
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