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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:42:30 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:58AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>>  			 */
>> -			if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && !PageAnon(page)) {
>> +			if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) || PageAnon(page)) {
>>  				list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
>>  				continue;
>>  			}
>>
> 
> Please nuke the whole check and do an unconditional list_add;
> continue; there.

<riel> aa: so you're saying we should _never_ add pages to the active 
list at this point in the code
<aa> right
<riel> aa: and remove the list_add and continue completely
<aa> yes
<riel> aa: your email says the opposite :)

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