Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964897AbWBGAhZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:37:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964896AbWBGAhZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:37:25 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:10159 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964897AbWBGAhY (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:37:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:37:08 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@cuia.boston.redhat.com To: Shantanu Goel cc: Marcelo Tosatti , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [VM PATCH] rotate_reclaimable_page fails frequently In-Reply-To: <20060206060147.13989.qmail@web33013.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060206060147.13989.qmail@web33013.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 20 On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Shantanu Goel wrote: > Ideally, for workloads that want to avoid paging as > much as possible, we should perhaps have a mode where > we never activate unmapped pages and let them all > reside on the inactive list. mark_page_accessed() > would simply move an unmapped page to the head of the > inactive list on the 2nd reference. Clock-pro (Peter's implementation, I still need to fix mine), should do the right thing automatically in situations like this... -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/