Re: The IBM order relaxation patch

From: Ulrich Weigand (Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 10:05:28 EST


Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's one of leading reasons for wanting rmap. (Number one and
>> two reasons are: allow forcible unmapping of multiply referenced pages
>> for swapout; get more reliable hardware ref bit readings.)
>
>It's still on my TODO list. Patches are very much welcome
>though ;)

On s390 we have per physical page hardware referenced / changed bits.
In the rmap framework, it should also be possible to make more efficient
use of these ...

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards

Ulrich Weigand

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