From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reclaim orphaned swap pages
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:16:28 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103301915010.23093-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010328235958.A1724@redhat.com>
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Stephen Tweedie wrote:
> Rik, the patch below tries to reclaim orphaned swap pages after
> swapped processes exit. I've only given it basic testing but I want
> to get feedback on it sooner rather than later --- we need to do
> _something_ about this problem!
>
> The patch works completely differently to the release-on-exit diffs:
It looks good and simple enough to just plug into the
kernel. I cannot see any problem with this patch, except
that the PAGECACHE_LOCK macro doesn't seem to exist (yet)
in my kernel tree ;))
cheers,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-30 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-28 22:59 Stephen Tweedie
2001-03-30 19:59 ` Patrick O'Rourke
2001-03-30 22:16 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-04-04 21:59 ` Stephen Tweedie
2001-03-31 22:46 Bulent Abali
2001-04-02 15:17 Richard Jerrell
2001-04-02 18:17 Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-04-02 18:40 ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-02 18:40 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-04-03 0:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-04-03 13:27 ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-03 22:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-04-04 14:29 ` Richard Jerrell
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