On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 20:44, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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.
I was looking at vmscan.c and it appears that swap_out() is what I
want. If instead of having it step through the mmlist, I give it the
explicit mm of the processes that I want a page swapped out from? so I
could implement my algorithm either inside that func or as function
calls from it and have it pass onto swap_out_mm() the mm of the
processes I choose to swap out.
or am I totally misunderstanding something here? (likely, as this is my
first time digging into the vm and trying to learn about it)
thanks,
shaya potter
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