From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <15135.37789.234756.822456@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:45:13 +0100 From: Jonathan Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] reapswap for 2.4.5-ac10 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: John Stoffel Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@cyberspace.org (not for attachments) The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. GCS$/E/S dpu(!) s:- a20 C+++ UL++ P L+++ E W+ N- o? K? w--- O-- M++$ V? PS PE- Y+ PGP++ t- 5- X- R !tv b++ DI+++ D G e+ h+ r++ y+(*) -- 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-mm.org/