Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:55:52 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2 |
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ehh... And if we didn't do that, then how could they every become less > > active? > > > > We should _absolutely_ do the swap space reclaiming without looking at > > the page count. > > page->age != page->count
Umm, forget that. We only decrease page->age in refill_inactive_scan, so we NEED to put it there. You're right, I should wake up and think a bit more about my own code ;)
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