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From: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reap dead swap cache earlier v2
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:31:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l0313031db7458697459b@[192.168.239.105]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106071435580.1156-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>

>> >As suggested by Linus, I've cleaned the reapswap code to be contained
>> >inside an inline function. (yes, the if statement is really ugly)
>>
>> I can't seem to find the patch which adds this behaviour to the background
>> scanning.
>
>I've just sent Linus a patch to free swap cache pages at the time we free
>the last pte. (requested by himself)
>
>With it applied we should get the old behaviour back again.
>
>I can put it on my webpage if you wish.

Just copy it to me so I can replace the dead-swap hacks you introduced earlier.

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-06-07 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-06 20:07 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 14:47 ` John Stoffel
2001-06-07 15:44   ` Hugh Dickins
2001-06-07 19:07 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-07 17:38   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 19:31     ` Jonathan Morton [this message]

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