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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 10:57:27 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Huan Yang <link@vivo.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] Introduce unbalance proactive reclaim
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On Thu 09-11-23 11:38:56, Huan Yang wrote:
[...]
> > If so, is it better only to reclaim private anonymous pages explicitly?
> Yes, in practice, we only proactively compress anonymous pages and do not
> want to touch file pages.

If that is the case and this is mostly application centric (which you
seem to be suggesting) then why don't you use madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)
instead.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs