Re: Consistent page aging....

Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-25T16:08:13Z

Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> 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.

Hmm. I haven't seen a patch for it, and I haven't seen the change being
vetoed by Linus and Davem. So I'd have to have more context to comment.