From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Page Eviction Algorithm Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:31:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC6ADF1.9000805@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Prasad Joshi Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35311 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759540Ab0JZKbU (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:31:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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