From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id D948038D68 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:49:58 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:49:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Consistent page aging.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On 25 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > > > > We had to be able to age pages without allocating swap space... > > > > I don't see any technical reasons why we can't do this. Doing it > > without adding many extra special cases would require some thinking > > but nothing fundamental says you can't have anonymous pages in the > > active list. > > Right. Except that for - presumably dbench-related ? - reasons Linus and Davem seem to be vetoeing this change. Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/