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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Moussa Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
	xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	yinghan@google.com, npiggin@suse.de, jaredeh@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:41:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248885667.4545.2673.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729145839.GB15102@csn.ul.ie>

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:58 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Total aside, is there potential to really mess with LRU aging by abusing
> clear_refs a lot, partcularly as clear_refs is writable by the process
> owner? Does it matter?

Absolutely. However, it's generally the process owner who will suffer.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24  3:57 [PATCH 1/1] pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing Moussa A. Ba
2009-07-24  8:39 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-24 18:00   ` Moussa Ba
2009-07-27 20:19   ` Moussa A. Ba
2009-07-27 20:30     ` Matt Mackall
2009-07-27 20:57     ` David Rientjes
2009-07-27 22:14       ` Moussa Ba
2009-07-27 22:20         ` Matt Mackall
2009-07-27 22:49         ` David Rientjes
2009-07-27 23:38           ` Moussa Ba
2009-07-27 23:42             ` Moussa Ba
2009-07-27 23:58             ` David Rientjes
2009-07-28  3:24               ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-28 16:44               ` Moussa A. Ba
2009-07-28 21:01                 ` David Rientjes
2009-07-28 22:52                   ` Moussa A. Ba
2009-07-28 23:52                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-29  0:00                       ` Moussa Ba
2009-07-29 14:58                         ` Mel Gorman
2009-07-29 16:41                           ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2009-07-30 19:21                           ` Moussa Ba

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