Re: [RFC PATCH 3/10] define page_file_cache

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:

> How exactly can an anonymous page ever become file backed?

When they get assigned a swap entry.

> > Do ramfs pages count as memory backed?
> 
> Since ramfs pages cannot be evicted from memory at all, they
> should go into the "noreclaim" page set.

Which LRU do they go on.

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