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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:33:53 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] add documentation on proc.txt
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On 04/22/2013 06:53 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> echo 'file' > /proc/PID/reclaim
> echo 'anon' > /proc/PID/reclaim
> echo 'both' > /proc/PID/reclaim
> 
> For range reclaim,
> 
> echo $((1<<20)) 8192 > /proc/PID/reclaim.
> 
> IOW, we don't need any type for range reclaim because only thing
> user takes care is address range which has mapped page regardless
> of that it's anon or file.
> 
> Does it make sense to you?

That looks very nice!  Although, I'd probably use 'all' instead of
'both'.  It leaves you more wiggle room to add more types in the future,
like volatile pages.
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