Re: Page aging broken in 2.6

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I'll let Rik and Andrea argue that part - it's entirely possible that
> getting lots of positive results is a _good_ thing, if the same page is
> mapped multiple times. That would just make us less eager to unmap it,
> which sounds like potentially the right thign to do (it's also how the
> old non-rmap code worked, and I know Rik thought it was "unfair", but
> whatever).

I'm really not sure which of the two behaviours would
perform better.  Chances are both behaviours will show
some performance improvement over the other, depending
on the workload...

Rik
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