Re: [PATCH] VM improvements for 2.1.131

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:52:55 GMT


Hi,

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:15:50 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@e-mind.com> said:

> Nono, I reversed the vmscan changes on my tree. On my tree when swap_out
> returns 1 it has really freed a page ;).

There are other issues with respect to the swap_out return value: in
particular, you MUST return 1 if you block (because during the block
interval the process underneath may have been killed), no matter what
state the current page is. Be careful with this!

--Stephen

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