Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:41:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c |
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:03PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > It isn't a bug, the referenced bit is a heuristic. The referenced bit > > being wrong cannot result in corrupted user memory. > > We might as well choose what pages to swap out according to a random number > generator then.
Show me a number. Andrea showed his performance. And I claim that our "random number generator" is really close to reality.
Linus
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