Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Sun, 13 May 2001 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: page_launder() bug |
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Rik van Riel writes: > On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > 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 ?
Because if it's a dead swap page the referenced bit is meaningless and we should just kill off the page immediately.
Later, 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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