Re: page_launder() bug

[David S. Miller]

Rik van Riel writes:
 > On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
 > > 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 ?

Because if it's a dead swap page the referenced bit is meaningless
and we should just kill off the page immediately.

Later,
David S. Miller
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