page replacement policy in the latest Linux kernel

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi :)

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 13:24, Zheng Da <zhengda1936 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please read do_generic_file_read(). If a page doesn't exist in the page
> cache, it will load the page and add it to the page cache. In the same
> iteration of the for loop, mark_page_accessed() is called to mark it
> referenced.
>
> So UTLK isn't wrong. It's just a little misleading.

Looks like you're correct. UTLK is based on old version of linux
kernel, so quite likely the current kernel release update the way it
does page replacement.

Like I said, it is dated :)

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