Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 13 May 2001 13:34:43 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: page_launder() bug |
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On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti writes: > > Ok, this patch implements thet thing and also changes ext2+swap+shm > > writepage operations (so I could test the thing). > > > > The performance is better with the patch on my restricted swapping tests. > > Nice. Now the only bit left is moving the referenced bit > checking and/or state into writepage as well. This is still > part of the plan right?
Why the hell would we want this ?
If the page is referenced, it should be moved back to the active list and should never be a candidate for writeout.
I'm very happy we got rid of the horribly intertwined VM code in 2.2 and went to a more separated design in 2.4...
regards,
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