Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 18:39:27 EST

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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.

-ben

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