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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:03 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>>Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> writes:
>>
>>
>>>From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>>>
>>>People expressed the need to track dirty pages in shared mappings.
>>
>>Why only shared mappings? Anonymous pages can be dirty too
>>and would need to be written to swap then before making progress.
>
>
> Anonymous pages are per definition dirty, as they don't have a
> persistent backing store.

They can be clean.

> Each eviction of an anonymous page requires IO
> to swap space. On swap-in pages are removed from the swap space to make
> place for other pages.

No they can remain in swap too.

Swap is a bit different because the memory usage patters are going
to be much different. There is no reason why something similar couldn't
be done for swap as well, however I don't think there is so much need
for it that has been demonstrated.

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