From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:16:28 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reclaim orphaned swap pages In-Reply-To: <20010328235958.A1724@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Stephen Tweedie Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/