Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap | Date | Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:56:55 -0400 |
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Albert Cahalan wrote: >>The nswap and cnswap variables counters have never >>been incremented as Linux doesn't do task swapping. > > > I'm pretty sure they were used for paging activity. > We don't eliminate support for "swap space", do we? > > Somebody must have broken nswap and cnswap while > hacking on some vm code. I hate to see the variables > get completely ripped out of the kernel instead of > getting fixed.
Since Linux doesn't swap, "fixed" would mean returning zero for these values. I don't thing even BSD swaps anymore, does it? In any case, Linux never did.
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