linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, sct@redhat.com
Subject: Re: filecache/swapcache questions
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:24:38 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9906152223590.534-100000@mirkwood.nl.linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199906151551.IAA74604@google.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

> I still can't see how this can happen. Note that try_to_swap_out
> either does a get_swap_page/swap_duplicate on the swaphandle,
> which gets the swap_count up to 2, or if it sees a page already in
> the swapcache, it just does a swap_duplicate. Either way, if the
> only reference on the physical page is from the swapcache, there
> will be at least one more reference on the swap page other than
> due to the swapcache. What am I missing?

When the swap I/O (if needed) finishes, the page count is
decreased by one.

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Le Reseau netwerksystemen BV:               http://www.reseau.nl/ |
| Linux Memory Management site:   http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/ |
| Nederlandse Linux documentatie:          http://www.nl.linux.org/ |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address'
in the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/

  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-15 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-15  7:16 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-15  7:32 ` Rik van Riel
1999-06-15 15:51   ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-15 20:24     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1999-06-15 21:02       ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-16 20:37     ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-17 23:33   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-18  0:20     ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-18 17:00       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-18 17:03         ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21  5:29 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 11:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-21 16:46   ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 16:57     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-21 17:36       ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 17:49         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-21 18:46           ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-21 23:44             ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-24 22:23               ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-24 23:55                 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-25  0:26                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-06-28 22:36             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-06-28 23:24               ` Kanoj Sarcar

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.03.9906152223590.534-100000@mirkwood.nl.linux.org \
    --to=riel@nl.linux.org \
    --cc=kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=sct@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox