Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:14:22 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:08:37 -0500
is completely bogus. Without the tlb flush, the system may never update the accessed bit on a page that is heavily being used.
It's intentional Ben, think about the high cost of the SMP invalidate when kswapd is just scanning page tables.
Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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