> > you care about how well the VM chooses which pages to swap out
> > and which pages to keep in RAM.
>
> and for that the aging fair scan for the acessed bitflag has a chance to
> be better than the unfair accessed bit handling in rmap that can lead to
> not evaluating correctly the accessed-virtual-age of the pages.
Ummm, what do you mean by this ?
> Also threating mapped pages in a special manner is beneficial.
Note that -rmap already does this.
regards,
Rik
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