> Even if I did not had the stats, its senseless to free/deactivate pages
> from zones which do not need to.
>
> The old behaviour was fundamentally broken.
Both behaviours are fundamentally broken. On the one hand
we WILL want to deactivate the least used pages so for
GFP_HIGHUSER allocations we know which zone to allocate
from.
On the other hand we want to avoid work in the pageout
code when it isn't needed.
regards,
Rik
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