Re: [patch] take 2 Re: PG_swap_entry bug in recent kernels

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07T23:26:48Z

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

>[..] you should try stress
>testing with swapdevice removal with a large number of runnable
>processes.[..]

swapdevice removal during swapin activity is broken right now as far I can
see. I'm trying to fix that stuff right now.

>Also, did you have a good reason to want to make lookup_swap_cache()
>invoke find_get_page(), and not find_lock_page()? I coded some of the

Using find_lock_page and then unlocking the page is meaningless. If you
are going to unconditionally unlock the page then you shouldn't lock it in
first place.

Andrea