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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Eviction Algorithm
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:31:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC6ADF1.9000805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikGVStbc47gXJ7Nxhp37iNQQSOqk13bZD0BTHQ9@mail.gmail.com>

  On 10/26/2010 11:19 AM, Prasad Joshi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was just going over TODO list on KVM page. In MMU related TODO I saw
> only page eviction algorithm currently implemented is FIFO.
>
> Is it really the case?

Yes.

> If yes I would like to work on it. Can someone
> let me know the place where the FIFO code is implemented?

Look at the code that touches mmu_active_list.

FWIW improving the algorithm is not critically important.  It's rare 
that mmu shadow pages need to be evicted.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26  9:19 Page Eviction Algorithm Prasad Joshi
2010-10-26 10:31 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-10-26 10:42   ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-26 13:07     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-26 13:31       ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-26 15:08         ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-28  8:45           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 13:03             ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-28  8:44         ` Avi Kivity

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