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Message-ID: <45DB4C87.6050809@redhat.com> 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 :) -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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