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    SubjectRe: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2
    On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
    > From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
    >
    > I've just uploaded a new snapshot of my new VM for
    > 2.4 to my home page, this version contains a
    > wakeup_kswapd() function (copied from wakeup_bdflush)
    > and should balance memory a bit better.
    >
    > How can drop_behind() work properly?
    >
    > You do not recompute the hash chain head for each decreasing
    > 'index' in the main while loop, and thus you search potentially
    > the wrong hash chain each time.
    >
    > Thus, you need to change:
    >
    > + page = __find_page_nolock(mapping, index, *hash);
    >
    > to something more like:
    >
    > + hash = page_hash(mapping, index);
    > + page = __find_page_nolock(mapping, index, *hash);

    Urghhh indeed. So /that's/ why drop_behind() didn't
    seem to do its work ;)

    Thanks for pointing out this obvious thinko. I hope
    more people will take a look at my VM patch and try
    to poke holes in it...

    (until now, only 3 people seem to have bothered with
    looking at the code in detail)

    regards,

    Rik
    --
    "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
    -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000

    http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/

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