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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:44:35 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: replacing the page replacement algo.
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On 18 Nov 2001, Shaya Potter wrote:

> If I wanted to experiment with different algorithms that chose which
> page to replace (say on a page fault) what functions would I have to
> replace?

try_to_free_pages() and all the functions it calls.

Rik
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