Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:04:07 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10 VM: what avoids from having lots of unwriteable inactive pages |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > We keep calling swap_out(), which will not deactivate pages which _can_ be > > written out, until we deactivate the pte's from the pages which are on the > > inactive list. > > swap_out() will deactivate everything it finds to be not-recently used, > and that's how the inactive list ends up getting replenished.
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