Rik van Riel [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

quoted

On 25 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

quoted

Marcelo Tosatti [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

We had to be able to age pages without allocating swap space...

I don't see any technical reasons why we can't do this.  Doing it
without adding many extra special cases would require some thinking
but nothing fundamental says you can't have anonymous pages in the
active list.

Right.

Except that for - presumably dbench-related ? - reasons
Linus and Davem seem to be vetoeing this change.

Hmm.  I haven't seen a patch for it, and I haven't seen the change being
vetoed by Linus and Davem.  So I'd have to have more context to comment.

Eric
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