From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, sct@redhat.com
Subject: Re: filecache/swapcache questions
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:37:01 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906162234180.23012-100000@laser.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199906151551.IAA74604@google.engr.sgi.com>
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
>What I am trying to find out is if it is enough to put these pages
>in the hash queue for swapper_inode, without really also putting
>them in the inode queue for swapper_inode. Its not like we ever
>"truncate" swapper_inode, that we will need to go thru its i_pages
>list ...
Yes, it's useless taking them into the swapper inode queue too. It's this
way only because it uses a common interface.
>PS: Q4: who uses rw_swap_page_nolock, and what is shmfs? Note that
>rw_swap_page_nolock is the only caller that passes in non PageSwapCache
>pages into rw_swap_page_base(), which otherwise could assume that
>all pages passed into it are PageSwapCache, which would eliminate
>the need for a seperate PG_swap_unlock_after bit.
Please look at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/kernel-patches/2.2.10_andrea-VM5.gz
Andrea Arcangeli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-16 20:37 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
1999-06-15 21:02 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-06-16 20:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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
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