Re: la la la la ... swappiness

Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04T18:15:57Z

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> but that's rather dumb. Better would be to remove mlocked pages from the
> LRU.

Could we generalize the removal of sections of a zone from the LRU? I
believe this would help various buffer allocation schemes. We have some
issues with heavy LRU scans if large buffers are allocated on some
nodes.