Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:29:03 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: page pre-swapping + moving it on cache-list |
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> Here is an idea i think i stole from Matthew Dillon`s paper. > > Actually it sound more like we take some pages from the near 0 > age and swapping them out but not throwing them away, but moving them > from active list to cache. So that we can always throw them away > at near null cost while shrinking the cache. This is like a > replacement for swap-cache if i`m right here...
This is called the "inactive_clean" list in Linux terminology. ;)
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