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Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:31:19 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] free swap space when (re)activating page

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
>> Nono, I try to remove the swap space occupied by pages that
>> go back onto the active list.  Regardless of whether they
>> were already there, or whether they started out on the
>> inactive list.
> 
> Ok then do it for all pages that go back not just for those leftover from 
> the moving of pages to the inactive list (why would you move those???)

I do.  The only pages that are exempt are the pages that move
from the active list to the inactive list, because those will
probably be evicted soon enough.

> Maybe the hunk does apply in a different location than I thought.

I suspect that's the case ...

> If you 
> do that in the loop over the pages on active list then it would make 
> sense. But in that case you need another piece of it doing the same to the 
> pages that are released at the end of shrink_active_list().

... because I think this is what my patch does :)

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