From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:58:08 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600 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: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" Cc: Alexander Viro , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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.nl.linux.org/Linux-MM/