Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:51:25 -0300 (BRST)

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104211336390.1685-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>,
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> >
> >What I _am_ worried about is the fact that we do this to pages with
> >a really high page age. These things are in active use and cannot
> >be swapped out any time soon, yet we do claim swap space for it ...
>
> Ehh... And if we didn't do that, then how could they every become less
> active?
>
> We should _absolutely_ do the swap space reclaiming without looking at
> the page count.

page->age != page->count

Rik

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