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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap
From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
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> The nswap and cnswap variables counters have never
> been incremented as Linux doesn't do task swapping.

I'm pretty sure they were used for paging activity.
We don't eliminate support for "swap space", do we?

Somebody must have broken nswap and cnswap while
hacking on some vm code. I hate to see the variables
get completely ripped out of the kernel instead of
getting fixed.