Re: [PATCH] VM: Implements the swap-out page-clustering technique

From: Zan Lynx
Date: Sun Sep 07 2008 - 20:50:17 EST


Rik van Riel wrote:
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On the other hand, you do want to avoid evicting data that the process is still using, just because you are swapping out a not recently referenced page on a
nearby virtual address.

How about writing the nearby pages to swap anyway and mark the still in-use pages as SwapCache.
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