Re: tmpfs swapoff oddity

[Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>]

Hi Mike,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> While testing Jens' loop-4 patch (and not being able to find
> any way to lock it up), I stumbled onto a strange behavior.
> 
> I set up an interleaved swap with one swap partition, and one
> swapfile in a loopback mounted reiserfs - populated tmpfs with
> a kernel tree and did hefty make -j kernel builds to generate
> much I/O.  Afterward (bored), I figured I'd bounce the data in
> tmpfs back and forth between swap containers with swapoff.  It
> took much longer than I expected.

Oh, the swapoff handling in Linux is much less then suboptimal. So I
would expect that.

To explain: For every single page on swap we scan all processes vmas
and all shm/tmpfs objects swap tables :-( And we have to hold some
locks for that...

Greetings
		Christoph


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