Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts... | Date | 09 Jul 2001 21:44:44 +0200 |
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Hi Linus,
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Does it help if you just remove the > > if (atomic_read(&page->count) > 2) > goto out; > > from shmem_writepage()? > > It _shouldn't_ matter (because writepage() should only be called > with inactive pages anyway), but your problem certainly sounds like > your inactive dirty list is not able to write out shmfs pages.
No, it does matter. It prevents races against getpage.
Greetings Christoph
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