linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 11:36:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Elladan <elladan@...imo.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class
 citizen

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> So if you haven't ran any firefox code, it should be gone from the
> active list after 2 full cycles, and from the inactive list on the first
> full inactive cycle after that.

So some incremental changes. I still want to use firefox after my backup
without having to wait 5 minutes while its paging exec pages back in.

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