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Re: large page patch
- To: ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org
- Subject: Re: large page patch
- From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 02:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
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- Sender: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
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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