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From: "Dike, Jeffrey G" <jeffrey.g.dike@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:42:10 -0700
Subject: RE: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?
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A side note - I've been doing some tracing and shrink_active_list is called=
 a humongous number of times (25000-ish during a ~90 kvm run), with a net r=
esult of zero pages moved nearly all the time.  Your test is rescuing essen=
tially all candidate pages from the inactive list.  Right now, I have the V=
M_EXEC || PageAnon version of your test.

						Jeff

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