From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Consistent page aging.... References: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 25 Jul 2001 10:08:13 -0600 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: Rik van Riel Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Rik van Riel writes: > 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. Hmm. I haven't seen a patch for it, and I haven't seen the change being vetoed by Linus and Davem. So I'd have to have more context to comment. Eric -- 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/