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From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Hamid R. Jahanjou" <hamid.jahanjou@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM: Implements the swap-out page-clustering technique
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:28:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C471AE.8060809@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080906014214.22f28548@riellaptop.surriel.com>

Rik van Riel wrote:
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> On the other hand, you do want to avoid evicting data 
> that the process is still using, just because you are 
> swapping out a not recently referenced page on a
> nearby virtual address.

How about writing the nearby pages to swap anyway and mark the still 
in-use pages as SwapCache.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04 12:04 [PATCH] VM: Implements the swap-out page-clustering technique Hamid R. Jahanjou
2008-09-04 23:14 ` Rik van Riel
2008-09-04 23:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-05  7:45   ` Hamid R. Jahanjou
2008-09-05  6:58     ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-05  9:19 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-05 20:27   ` Hamid R. Jahanjou
2008-09-05 19:45     ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-06  5:42       ` Rik van Riel
2008-09-08  0:28         ` Zan Lynx [this message]
2008-09-08  0:55           ` Rik van Riel
2008-09-10  8:16             ` Hamid R. Jahanjou
2008-09-10 17:08               ` Ray Lee
2008-09-10 17:39                 ` Rik van Riel
2008-09-08  3:50 ` Li Yu
2008-09-08  9:51   ` hamidreza jahanjou
     [not found]     ` <48C4FECF.2000708@gmail.com>
2008-09-08 10:31       ` Li Yu
2008-09-24 13:56 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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