Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Aug 05 2009 - 13:43:52 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:58AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
*/
- if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && !PageAnon(page)) {
+ if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) || PageAnon(page)) {
list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
continue;
}


Please nuke the whole check and do an unconditional list_add;
continue; there.

<riel> aa: so you're saying we should _never_ add pages to the active list at this point in the code
<aa> right
<riel> aa: and remove the list_add and continue completely
<aa> yes
<riel> aa: your email says the opposite :)

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