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

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Aug 13 2009 - 12:13:25 EST


On 08/13/2009 06:46 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
We need to ignore the referenced bit on active anon pages
on very large systems, but it could indeed be helpful to
respect the referenced bit on smaller systems.

I have no idea where the cut-off between them would be.

Maybe at inactive_ratio <= 4 ?

Why do we need to ignore the referenced bit in such cases? To avoid overscanning?

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