On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:21:29AM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote:
> I feel that if there is no memory pressure, frankly it doesnt matter much about
> what gets out and what not. The case I am specifically targeting is when the
> clocksweep gets to move about a lot i.e. high memory pressure workloads. Of
> course, I may be totally wrong here.
>
> One thing that I discussed with Merlin offline and am now concerned about is
> how will the actual eviction work. We cannot traverse the entire list and then
> find all the buffers with refcount 0 and then do another traversal to find the
> oldest one.
I thought if there was memory pressure the clock sweep would run and we
wouldn't have everything at the max counter access value.
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