From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [192.168.1.207] ([192.168.1.207]) by arianne.in.ishoni.com (8.11.6/Ishonir2) with ESMTP id h1B4l8L31773 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:17:09 +0530 Subject: hot and cold pages From: Amol Kumar Lad Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 11 Feb 2003 10:12:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1044976347.13957.19.camel@amol.in.ishoni.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, I have a small question regarding 'per_cpu_pages' . What is significance if maintaining 'hot' pages and 'cold' pages list. Are hot pages something to do with L2 cache (on x86) ? --- After going through code, I found out, any new page allocation (for file read)is from cold page list and zero order pages are generally freed to hot page list -- Amol -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/