From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:42:12 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: Drop PageReclaim() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Could we put the page on the inactive list in shrink_page_list? shrink_inactive_list() is the only caller of shrink_page_list(). So the page is already on the inactive list. The effect of the code is to move the page back to the inactive list if it was touched while the page was written back. Why would we do this? A write ages the page? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org