> Well we wouldn't want to leave tons of free pages on the LRU - the VM
> would needlessly reclaim pagecache before finding the free pages. And
> higher-order page allocations could suffer.
We did this with the swap cache in 2.4.<7 and it was an
absolute disaster.
regards,
Rik
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