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SubjectRe: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
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> I think it's far more expensive to pull a page back in from disk.

Note that _if_ the page is so often accessed that it stays in the TLB, it
won't ever hit the disk. We _will_ do a TLB invalidate when we unmap it,
and it will get re-mapped long before it's written out.

So it's more likely to result in extra soft-faults, but considering that
if the system is paging stuff out we'll almost certainly be doing enough
context switches that the thing doesn't matter.

And avoiding the extra TLB flush (for _every_ page scanned) is noticeable
according to Andrea.

Linus

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