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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:20:58 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] cache shrinking via page age
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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:38:31PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> Andrew Morton pointed out that the kernel is using 8m pages and is 
> setting reference bits for these pages...  He suggested (amoung other
> things - thanks) that setting the bits in kmem_cache_alloc would be 
> a good start to making aging happen.   This version of the patch 
> impliments his suggestion.
> Comments?
> Ed Tomlinson

8MB pages? What architecture?


Cheers,
Bill
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