Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:38:56 +0530 | Subject | Re: Fwd: Control page reclaim granularity | From | Kautuk Consul <> |
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> > I agree, but that's not my point. > > All I'm saying is that we probably don't want to give normal > unprivileged usermode apps > the capability to set the mapping to AS_UNEVICTABLE as anyone can then > write an application > that hogs memory without allowing the kernel to free it through memory reclaim.
Sorry, I mean : "... that hogs kernel unmapped page-cache memory without allowing the kernel to free it through memory reclaim."
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