Re: [VM PATCH] rotate_reclaimable_page fails frequently

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 19:35:32 EST


On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Shantanu Goel wrote:

> Ideally, for workloads that want to avoid paging as
> much as possible, we should perhaps have a mode where
> we never activate unmapped pages and let them all
> reside on the inactive list. mark_page_accessed()
> would simply move an unmapped page to the head of the
> inactive list on the 2nd reference.

Clock-pro (Peter's implementation, I still need to fix mine),
should do the right thing automatically in situations like
this...

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