Re: page_launder() bug

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
>  > Ok, this patch implements thet thing and also changes ext2+swap+shm
>  > writepage operations (so I could test the thing).
>  > 
>  > The performance is better with the patch on my restricted swapping tests.
> 
> Nice.  Now the only bit left is moving the referenced bit
> checking and/or state into writepage as well.  This is still
> part of the plan right?

Why the hell would we want this ?

If the page is referenced, it should be moved back to the
active list and should never be a candidate for writeout.

I'm very happy we got rid of the horribly intertwined VM
code in 2.2 and went to a more separated design in 2.4...

regards,

Rik
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