Global lru is an approximation of per-task working set. That's why it
works. But it's not perfect.
>
> > > You won't find one if you don't look for it.
> >
> > I'm too dumb to come up with a solution here, but you are the one
> > changing the interface, so surely you have a couple of "less borked"
> > solutions in mind - right?
>
> Yes. Well, I'm not alone here, ping Marcelo on that if you like. This is
> known borkness that's been deferred while more pressing borkness is dealt
> with.
So you and Marcelo are planning on making changes to the semantics
of primitive memory allocation modules in the production kernel?
Can that be true? I hope not.
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