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

[Zan Lynx]

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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