Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:33:48 +0200 |
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On September 4, 2001 07:14 pm, Jan Harkes wrote: > To get back on the thread I jumped into, I totally agree with Linus that > writeout should be as soon as possible. Probably even as soon as an > inactive dirty page hits the inactive dirty list, which would > effectively turn the inactive dirty list into your laundry list.
No, we don't want that, we need the inactive list as a test of short-term inactivity. It doesn't make sense to begin the writeout until the page has made it to the other end of the inactive ist. Otherwise you just revert to "one-hand-clock".
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