From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:45:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:45:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.port.ru ([194.67.57.11]:11786 "EHLO smtp1.port.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:45:23 -0400 From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru> Message-Id: <200109060519.f865Ja106488@vegae.deep.net> Subject: page pre-swapping + moving it on cache-list To: riel@surriel.com Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 05:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Here is an idea i think i stole from Matthew Dillon`s paper. Actually it sound more like we take some pages from the near 0 age and swapping them out but not throwing them away, but moving them from active list to cache. So that we can always throw them away at near null cost while shrinking the cache. This is like a replacement for swap-cache if i`m right here... cheers, Sam