Re: memory handling in pre5/pre6

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 10:29:53 EST


On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>Doing this will give the pages a shorter life span in the
>LRU queue, which may be good or wrong, depending on the

Doing this will give a longer life to pages that had a cache hit.

The new inserted pages don't need the reference bit since their age is
just honoured by the initial position in the LRU.

Andrea

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