Re: About the free page pool

Rik van Riel
2002-09-02T21:15:04Z

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Well, I'm at a bit of a loss to understand what the objective
> of all this is. Is it so that we can effectively increase the
> cache size, by not "wasting" all that free memory?

This is the main goal, yes. It is worth noting that it also
works in the other direction, we can simply increase the clean
target to something large if we have a high allocation rate
because it doesn't waste memory to clean pages earlier.

regards,

Rik
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