Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:13:38 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: MM patches against 2.5.31 |
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well we wouldn't want to leave tons of free pages on the LRU - the VM > would needlessly reclaim pagecache before finding the free pages. And > higher-order page allocations could suffer.
We did this with the swap cache in 2.4.<7 and it was an absolute disaster.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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