Re: large page patch

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 02 Aug 2002 02:06:53 -0700 (PDT)


From: Ryan Cumming <ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:05:43 -0700

What about applications that want fine-grained page aging? 4MB is a
tad on the course side for most desktop applications.

Once vmscan sees the page and tries to liberate it, then it
will be unlarge'd and thus you'll get fine-grained page aging.

That's the beauty of my implementation suggestion.
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