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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: "Pan ruochen" <panruochen@gmail.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How kernel applies LRU to swap out physical pages?
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:58:16 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111175417.8B35.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af0faace0811110022j161d4e26h87f2d9624b9fa494@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

> Hi All,
> I'm reading the linux kernel 2.6.14. 

it seems too old.
I recommend to read newest kernel.

> But can't understand how LRU algorithm
> is applied to page swapping. what is the 'USED' of LRU referred to? The
> reference counter which the page is mapped by processes, or the frequency that
> CPU reads/writes in the page. In common sense, the LRU algorithm will be more
> optimal for the second case. But it depends on CPU capability.
> I will be very appreciated if somebody can explain that in details.

I recommend to read page_referenced() and its related function :)




      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-11  8:22 Pan ruochen
2008-11-11  8:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-11  9:56   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-11 11:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-12  1:36       ` Pan ruochen
2008-11-11  8:58 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]

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