Re: [PATCH] vmscan: prevent background aging of anon page in no swapsystem

[Rik van Riel]

On 09/03/2010 05:06 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> We don't have any quantitative data on the effect of these excess tlb
> flushes, which makes it difficult to decide which kernel versions
> should receive this patch.
>
> Help?

I assume it is a relatively small performance optimization,
as well as a nice code cleanup ... so probably no real hurry
to get it upstream (next time you send Linus mm patches?),
and no real reason to have it backported to a -stable kernel
either.

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