Hi,
Ping? Thanks a lot.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 08:32:18AM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> I am looking into idle page tracking and noticed the page-types tool
> in tools/vm/. It seems you are only marking pages as idle if the -f
> option is passed ("Walk file address space").
>
> I was curious why you decided do the marking of idle pages only for
> files and not anonymous pages?
> As doing in the following code:
> if (opt_mark_idle && opt_file)
> page_idle_fd = checked_open(SYS_KERNEL_MM_PAGE_IDLE, O_RDWR);
>
> We mainly want to do idle page tracking for anonymous regions to
> determine howmuch of its anonymous memory is a process really using
> actively.
>
> But I was curious what was the reason you did it this way?
>
> thanks,
> - Joel
>
