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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:06:37 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] vm-mapped-x-active-lists
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Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Nick Piggin wrote:
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>> Split the active list into mapped and unmapped pages.
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> This looks similar to Rik's Active and Active-anon lists in 2.4-rmap.
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Oh? I haven't looked at 2.4-rmap for a while. Well I guess that gives
it more credibility, thanks.

> Also, how does this interact with Andrea's VM work?
>

Not sure to be honest, I haven't looked at it :\. I'm not really
sure if the rmap mitigation direction is just a holdover until
page clustering or intended as a permanent feature...

Either way, I trust its proponents will take the onus for regressions.

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