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From: David Miller <davem <at> davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel, gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Date: 2008-03-20 00:09:37 GMT (15 weeks, 3 days and 54 minutes ago)
From: Andrew Morton <akpm <at> linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:12:11 -0700

> I did some work on that many years ago and I do recall that it
> helped, but I forget how much.

I wrote such a patch ages ago as well.

Frankly, based upon my experiences then and what I know now, I think
it's a lose to do this.

Better to 1) have enough ram and 2) make the reclaim smarter about
important "executable" page cache pages.