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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list
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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This patch implements the inactive_clean list spoken of during the VM summit.
> The LRU tail pages will be unmapped and ready to free, but not freeed.
> This gives reclaim an extra chance.

This patch makes it possible to implement Martin Schwidefsky's
hypervisor-based fast page reclaiming for architectures without
millicode - ie. Xen, UML and all other non-s390 architectures.

That could be a big help in heavily loaded virtualized environments.

The fact that it helps prevent the iSCSI memory deadlock is a
huge bonus too, of course :)

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