From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19180 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:10:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:10:28 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Reply-To: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Zlatko Calusic , Linus Torvalds , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich , steve@netplus.net, brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Ben McCann , Alan Cox , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Rik van Riel wrote: > - in allocating swap space it just doesn't make sense to read > into the next swap 'region' The point is that I can't see a swap `region' looking at how scan_swap_map() works. The more atomic region I can see in the swap space is a block of bytes large PAGE_SIZE bytes (e.g. offset ;). For the case of binaries the aging on the page cache should take care of it (even if there's no aging on the swap cache as pre[567] if I remeber well). Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org