Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:10:11 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]] |
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > I have a new revolutionary patch. The main thing is that I killed kswapd > > just to make Rik happy ;). > > You may have made Rik happy,
Not even that -- I really like the concept of a separate thread doing the much needed page freeing...
> but you totally missed the reason for kswapd. And while your > patch looked interesting (a lot cleaner than the previous ones, > and I _like_ patches that remove code), the fact that you killed > kswapd means that it is essentially useless.
Yup -- a definite No-No. (just to make sure that nobody would have really gotten the impression that I would be happy with the removal of kswapd)
cheers,
Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue? +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/~riel | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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