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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: pre2 swap_out() changes
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:49:10 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101111046020.2388-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101110825460.9296-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Since no process calls swap_out() directly, I dont see any sense on the
> comment above. 

Stage #2 is to allow them to call refill_inactive() in the low-memory case
(right now processes can only do "page_launder()" in alloc_pages(), and I
think that is wrong - it means that the only one scanning page tables etc
is kswapd)

		Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-11 10:38 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-11 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-01-12 11:35   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-12 19:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 19:22       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-13  0:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 22:41           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-13  0:45             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17  7:05             ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-18 11:54           ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-13 11:41         ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17  7:08           ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-13 11:51       ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-14  2:39         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-14  4:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-14  3:50             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-14 15:51               ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-01-14 14:13                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-14 16:15                   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-14 17:22                     ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17  7:16                       ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17  7:15                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17  7:12               ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-11 20:52 Benjamin Redelings I

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