Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Prevent promotion of page in madvise_dontneed

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On 11/28/2010 10:02 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
Now zap_pte_range alwayas promotes pages which are pte_young&&
!VM_SequentialReadHint(vma). But in case of calling MADV_DONTNEED,
it's unnecessary since the page wouldn't use any more.

If the page is sharred by other processes and it's real working set

This line seems to be superfluous, I don't see any special
treatment for this case in the code.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin<npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

The patch itself looks good to me.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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