Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:27:32 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | 2.4.10 VM: what avoids from having lots of unwriteable inactive pages |
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Linus,
What avoids us from having a lot of unfreeable (eg mapped by ptes) pages on the inactive list ?
Since we don't move those pages to the active list at shrink_cache(), I see that we rely on swap_out() to deactivate pte's and make pages on the inactive list freeable.
Is that right ?
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