linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] free swap space when (re)activating page

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702192048150.9934@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:53:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.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

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:

> What do you think?

Looks good apart from one passage (which just vanished when I tried to 
reply, please post patches as inline text).

It was the portion that modifies shrink_active_list. Why operate
on the pagevec there? The pagevec only contains the leftovers to be 
released from scanning over the temporary inactive list.

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