Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 05:49:52 EST


jdike@karaya.com said:
> And I don't see anything wrong with starting a bunch of UMLs with a
> total maximum memory exceeding the available tmpfs as long as they
> don't all need all that memory at once. And, if they do, the patch I
> just posted will let them deal fairly sanely with the situation.

Going off at a slight tangent...

You say 'at once'. Does UML somehow give pages back to the host when they're
freed, so the pages that are no longer used by UML can be discarded by the
host instead of getting swapped?

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dwmw2

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