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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Take anonymous pages off the LRU if we have no swap
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:17:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DCD309.5010109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702211409001.27422@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On linux-mm we also discussed taking anonymous pages off the LRU if there 
> is no swap defined or not enough swap. However, there is no easy way of 
> putting the pages back to the LRU since we have no list of mlocked pages. 

Chris,

I am working on a VM design that would take care of this issue in
a somewhat cleaner way.  I'm writing up the bits and pieces as I
find easy ways to explain them.

Want to help out with brainstorming and implementing?

http://linux-mm.org/PageReplacementDesign

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21 22:12 Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 23:17 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-02-22  0:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-22  2:17     ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-22  3:09       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-22 12:13         ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-22 15:35           ` Balbir Singh
2007-02-22 17:04             ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-22 17:21 ` Paul Menage
2007-02-22 18:45   ` Christoph Lameter

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