Re: [PATCH] Take anonymous pages off the LRU if we have no swap

Rik van Riel
2007-02-21T23:17:29Z

Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On linux-mm we also discussed taking anonymous pages off the LRU if there
> is no swap defined or not enough swap. However, there is no easy way of
> putting the pages back to the LRU since we have no list of mlocked pages.

Chris,

I am working on a VM design that would take care of this issue in
a somewhat cleaner way. I'm writing up the bits and pieces as I
find easy ways to explain them.

Want to help out with brainstorming and implementing?

http://linux-mm.org/PageReplacementDesign

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