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

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 12:55:52 EST

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > 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

Umm, forget that. We only decrease page->age in refill_inactive_scan,
so we NEED to put it there. You're right, I should wake up and think
a bit more about my own code ;)

Rik 

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