From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:58:08 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912271654320.335-100000@alpha.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991214171649.16967A-100000@kanga.kvack.org>
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote:
>Ah, I see what you're talking about. In theory we make rw_swap_page use
>the page cache operations of the filesystem (or block device) by simply
>relabelling the page from its swap cache entry. Actually, if we use the
>page cache for block device access, doesn't that mean that we can get rid
>of the swapper_inode completely? This seems like an obvious way of doing
The swapper_inode only say "I am a swap cache page". Also the
PG_swap_cache bitflag say the same. So we could remove the swapper inode
even now but that's not a maojor issue.
The swapper inode only deals with the swap cache and the swap cache is not
the right place where to allocate the loop cache.
Andrea
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1999-12-14 22:41 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-12-27 15:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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