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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Craig Kulesa <ckulesa@as.arizona.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 04:24:55AM -0700, Craig Kulesa wrote:
> This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab
> pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch.  
> It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab
> pages.

In combination with the pte_chain in slab patch, this should at long last
enable reclamation of unused pte_chains after surges in demand. Can you
test this to verify that reclamation is actually done? (I'm embroiled in
a long debugging session at the moment.)


Thanks,
Bill
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