Re: [PATCH 01/14] page-replace-single-batch-insert.patch

Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-01T02:59:08Z

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > Unification of active and inactive per cpu page lists is a requirement
> > for CLOCK-Pro, right?
>
> You can approximate the functionality through use of scan
> rates. Not quite as accurate as a unified clock, though.

Rik, I dont understand what you mean.

My point is that the page-replacement-policy abstraction patches affect
the original behaviour, and they shouldnt. See the post from Peter about
abstracting the per-cpu lists.

We're talking about different things.