Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5

Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-04-06T14:01:15Z

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:22:35 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@e-mind.com> said:

> The page hash function change is from Stephen (I did it here too because I
> completly agreed with it). The point is that shm entries uses the lower
> bits of the pagemap->offset field.

_All_ swap entries do. shm entries never enter the page cache so that's
not a problem, but the swap cache _is_ a problem.

> Eh, my shrink_mmap() is is a black magic and it's long to explain what I
> thought ;).

It is hard to have a meaningful discussion about it otherwise!

--Stephen