Re: Fwd: Control page reclaim granularity

[Kautuk Consul]

>
> I agree, but that's not my point.
>
> All I'm saying is that we probably don't want to give normal
> unprivileged usermode apps
> the capability to set the mapping to AS_UNEVICTABLE as anyone can then
> write an application
> that hogs memory without allowing the kernel to free it through memory reclaim.

Sorry, I mean :
"... that hogs kernel unmapped page-cache memory without allowing the
kernel to free it through memory reclaim."
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