Re: [PATCH] reapswap for 2.4.5-ac10

[Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>]

At 3:45 pm +0100 7/6/2001, John Stoffel wrote:
>Jonathan> The one which deals with dead swapcache pages.  I want to
>Jonathan> apply the one which actively eats them using kreclaimd, too.
>
>Why do we need yet another daemon to reap pages/swap/cache from the
>system?
>
>Or am I mis-understanding you here and you'd just be adding some stuff
>to kswapd?

It wasn't me.  :)  kreclaimd already exists (i think it shows up as bdflush
in top), the patch I'm looking at adds swapcache-reclaim duties to it.
It's the same family of code as kswapd.

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