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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Update page-flags.h commentary
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:41:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040920224111.A16285@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040920193532.GD5521@logos.cnet>; from marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com on Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:35:32PM -0300

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..

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-20 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 19:35 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-20 21:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-20 20:30   ` Update page-flags.h commentary\ Marcelo Tosatti

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