From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Update page-flags.h commentary\
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:30:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040920203010.GH5521@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040920224111.A16285@infradead.org>
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:41:12PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:35:32PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Andrew,
> >
> > There is no such thing as "page->age" (this was true sometime back in the past).
> >
> > Update page-flags to reflect it.
> >
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm5/include/linux/page-flags.h.orig 2004-09-20 18:04:51.871654024 -0300
> > +++ linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm5/include/linux/page-flags.h 2004-09-20 18:05:19.647431464 -0300
> > @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
> > * For choosing which pages to swap out, inode pages carry a PG_referenced bit,
> > * which is set any time the system accesses that page through the (mapping,
> > * index) hash table. This referenced bit, together with the referenced bit
> > - * in the page tables, is used to manipulate page->age and move the page across
> > - * the active, inactive_dirty and inactive_clean lists.
> > + * in the page tables, is used to move the page across the active,
> > + * inactive_dirty and inactive_clean lists.
>
> there's also no inactive_dirty or inactive_clean lists anymore. Or an
> mapping, index hashtable..
True! Andrew, ignore my patch.
If no one prepares a patch I'll do so later on.
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2004-09-20 19:35 Update page-flags.h commentary Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-20 21:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
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