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SubjectRe: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > fork and exec are well ordered in how they add to the mmlist,
> > and that ordering (children after parent) suited swapoff nicely,
> > to minimize duplication of a swapent while it's being unused;
> > except swap_out randomized the order by cycling init_mm around it.
>
> Urmmm, so the code was obfuscated in order to optimise
> swapoff() ?

To speed swapoff, I changed the code back to how fork (see comment
on "Add it to the mmlist" in fork.c old and new) and exec seemed to
intend. I don't see see that I _obfuscated_ the code:
what's so difficult about swap_mm?

> Exactly how bad was the "mmlist randomising" for swapoff() ?

It was unnecessary and counter-productive, I changed it.
Exact number? No, but small.

Hugh

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