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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702201226140.16722@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:26:54 -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>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] free swap space when (re)activating page

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:

> The attached patch should be correct.

Oh. It vanished again when I replied to your mail.

> Btw, why do we not call pagevec_strip on the pages on l_active?
> I assume we want to reclaim their buffer heads, too...

Yes we want to reduce buffer heads if we are over the limit.
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