From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA21377 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:34:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:29:22 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Fwd: [BUG][2.4.18+] kswapd assumes swapspace exists] Message-Id: <20030311162922.373a2414.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E6E49BD.1050701@google.com> References: <3E6E49BD.1050701@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ross Biro Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Ross Biro wrote: > > I posted this to the LKML and got no response. There is definitely an > MM bug here. My test program (should be attached) has run over 330 > times in a row with the change while it rarely made more than twice with > out the change. > Makes sense. There's a fix for this in the -aa kernels, but it may have been accidental. There's no point in bringing these pages onto the inactive list at all. Suggest you look at keeping them on the active list in refill_inactive(). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org