Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:55:57 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
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       Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
       Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
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Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded
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Robin Getz wrote:
> > Currently, CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU can't use on nommu machine
> > because nobody of vmscan folk havbe nommu machine.
> > 
> > Yes, it is very stupid reason. _very_ welcome to tester! :)
> 
> As always - if you (or any kernel developer) would like a noMMU machine to 
> test on - please send me a private email.

Well, that explains why vmscan has historically performed a little
dubiously on small nommu machines!

By the way, this is just a random side thought... nommu kernels work
just fine in emulators :-)

-- Jamie
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