From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:30:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hahn Subject: Re: write drop behind effect on active scanning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > page->age = 0 ? > > That would make any full scan through the active list move all dropped > pages from generic_file_write() to the inactive list. well, that's where they're going, aren't they? when these pages are unlocked, they should wind up on the inactive-clean list. I think the real question is whether it's worthwhile to make a separate locked list for them. it certainly makes no sense to have them on a/ic/id while they're locked, no? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/