Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 14 May 2001 09:05:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: page_launder() bug |
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torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 13.05.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105131330350.20613-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>:
> And that's why I'd rather have generic support for _any_ page mapping that > wants to drop pages early than have specific logic for swapping. > Historically, we've always had very good results from trying to avoid > having special cases and instead trying to find what the common rules > might be.
Just a thought: isn't a dead swap page a rather similar condition to a page in a file without any links, open file descriptors, or open mmaps? In both cases, writeback really makes no sense.
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