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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:25:23 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.33-mm1
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Hi,

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:33:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I *really* think we need to throw away those pages instantly.
> 
> The only possible reason for hanging onto them is because they're
> cache-warm.  And we need a global-scope cpu-local hot pages queue
> anyway.

Yep --- except for caches with constructors, for which we do save a
bit more by hanging onto the pages for longer.

--Stephen
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