Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make the Unevictable LRU available on NOMMU

From: Lee Schermerhorn
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 14:30:34 EST


On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 16:24 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I just want to point out [again :)] that removing the ramfs pages from
> > the lru will prevent them from being migrated
>
> This is less of an issue for NOMMU kernels, since you can't migrate pages that
> are mapped.


Agreed. So, you could eliminate them [ramfs pages] from the lru for
just the nommu kernels, if you wanted to go that route.

Lee

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