On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 05:30:56PM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Tipping the balance for inactive list rotation has been there from the > beginning, but I don't quite understand why. It probably was not a > problem as the conditions for inactive cycling applied to both file > and anon equally, but with used-once detection for file and deferred > file writeback from direct reclaim, we tend to cycle more file pages > on the inactive list than anonymous ones. Those rotated pages should > be a signal to favor file reclaim, though. [...] should NOT be a signal [...] obviously. Sorry. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>