Re: 230-objrmap fixes for 2.6.3-mjb2

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 16:42:37 EST


> what we do in 2.4 and that works pretty well, that is simply to refile
> pages into the active list if they're mlocked, so we don't waste too
> much cpu on them since we don't analyze them too often. this should work
> pretty well for everybody, or peraphs google may prefer to have a fully
> consistent PG_mlocked.

If the page is actually mlocked, wouldn't it make more sense to remove
it from both the active and inactive lists altogether? Scanning it seems
like it'd be less than fruitful.

M.

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