From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 02:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020802.020653.105601161.davem@redhat.com> Subject: Re: large page patch From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200208020205.47308.ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org> References: <15690.9727.831144.67179@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020802.012040.105531210.davem@redhat.com> <200208020205.47308.ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, gh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, akpm@zip.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rohit.seth@intel.com, sunil.saxena@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com List-ID: What about applications that want fine-grained page aging? 4MB is a tad on the course side for most desktop applications. Once vmscan sees the page and tries to liberate it, then it will be unlarge'd and thus you'll get fine-grained page aging. That's the beauty of my implementation suggestion. -- 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/