Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list

[Rik van Riel]

Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think Rik would want to set all the already unmapped pages to volatile
> > state in the hypervisor.

> I guessed that as well. It isn't good enough. Consider a guest with a
> large (virtual) memory size and a host with a small physical memory
> size. The guest will never put any page on the inactive_clean list
> because it does not have memory pressure. 

Well, the management software running on top of everything
should tweak the inactive_clean targets in the various guests
so the total amount of volatile memory is large enough...

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