Re: Results: 2.2.0-pre5 vs arcavm10 vs arcavm9 vs arcavm7

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-07T23:58:27Z

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Note that if swap_out swaps something out, it will always return 1 (it has
> to, as it sleeps), and that in turn will make us decrement our counter,

Side note, when we swapout something we stop completly swapping out and we
return to try_to_free_pages() (still better for the issue we was talking
about ;).

> So I really don't think it's a scaling issue either.

Yes, I think you are right. I am rejecting the calc_swapout_weight code.

Andrea Arcangeli