On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 09:52 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > In my case (virtualization) I want to test/profile guest under heavy swapping > of a guests memory, so I intentionally create memory shortage by creating
You mean "guest memory" that is area emulated DRAM in qemu? It is anonymous vma. > guest much large then host memory, but I want system to swap out only > guest's memory. Couldn't you use MADV_SEQUENTIAL on only guest memory area? It doesn't make side effect about readahead since it's anon area. And it would make do best effort to swap out guest's memory. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
