Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

Rik van Riel
2001-09-18T12:05:01Z

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> We should not do _anything_ in __find_page_nolock().

> The aging has to be done at a higher level (ie when you actually _use_
> it, not when you search the hash queues).

Absolutely agreed. In fact, I already did this last week
in the -still not published- new version of the reverse
mapping patch ;)

(now if I only could get that thing SMP safe in an efficient
way)

regards,

Rik
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