linux-kernel - Re: Why active list and inactive list?

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:03:30 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
cc:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>,
	Niki Hammler <mailinglists@...aq.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Why active list and inactive list?

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:

> It would be really nice if we came up with a page replacement
> algorithm that did not need many extra heuristics to make it
> work...

I guess the "clock" type algorithms are the most promising in that 
area. What happened to all those advanced page replacement endeavors? 
What is the most promising of those? You seem to have done a lot of work 
on those.

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