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

From: Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 09:26:44 EST


dwmw2@infradead.org said:
> 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?

No, but it could. Given another hook (in free_pages this time) I could unmap
pages as they're freed, allowing them to be discarded on the host.

                                Jeff

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