Re: [PATCH] mm: inactive-clean list

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Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
On 7/26/06, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:

I think Rik would want to set all the already unmapped pages to volatile
state in the hypervisor.

I guessed that as well. It isn't good enough. Consider a guest with a
large (virtual) memory size and a host with a small physical memory
size. The guest will never put any page on the inactive_clean list
because it does not have memory pressure.

Well, the management software running on top of everything
should tweak the inactive_clean targets in the various guests
so the total amount of volatile memory is large enough...

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