On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:47:30AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> So I decided to look for a new way of approaching the use-once problem
> that would easily integrated with our current approach. What I came
> up with is pretty simple: instead of starting a newly allocated page on
> the active ring, I start it on the inactive queue with an age of zero.
> Then, any time generic_file_read or write references a page, if its
> age is zero, set its age to START_AGE and mark it as unreferenced.
This is wonderfully simple and ellegant.
Jim
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