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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:54:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: kswapd
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> So think of the bug as "kswapd will waste the final part of its timeslice
> doing nothing useful".

yes!  should it not look at the return from try_to_free_pages 
to find out whether further looping is needed?  or something based
on the current free pages level, hopefully with hysteresis like 
Rik mentioned?

regards, mark hahn.

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