Re: Consistent page aging....

Rik van Riel
2001-07-25T15:49:58Z

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> >
> > > We had to be able to age pages without allocating swap space...
> >
> > I don't see any technical reasons why we can't do this. Doing it
> > without adding many extra special cases would require some thinking
> > but nothing fundamental says you can't have anonymous pages in the
> > active list.
>
> Right.

Except that for - presumably dbench-related ? - reasons
Linus and Davem seem to be vetoeing this change.

Rik
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