Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:41:58 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:03PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > It isn't a bug, the referenced bit is a heuristic. The referenced bit
> > being wrong cannot result in corrupted user memory.
>
> We might as well choose what pages to swap out according to a random number
> generator then.
Show me a number. Andrea showed his performance. And I claim that our
"random number generator" is really close to reality.
Linus
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