linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: Insert tmpfs cache pages to inactive list at first

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Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 22:00:12 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: Insert tmpfs cache pages to inactive list at first

On 05/20/2010 09:31 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins<hughd@...gle.com>
>
> Thanks - though I don't quite agree with your description: I can't
> see why the lru_cache_add_active_anon() was ever justified - that
> "active" came in along with the separate anon and file LRU lists.

I guess I kind of expected that function to be used by
anonymous pages, when I wrote it.  Except we use a
different variant from do_anonymous_page :)

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