Re: [PATCH] Reap dead swap cache earlier v2

Jonathan Morton (chromi@cyberspace.org)
Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:31:53 +0100


>> >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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