Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c

Linus Torvalds
2001-10-29T23:44:20Z

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:03PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > It isn't a bug, the referenced bit is a heuristic. The referenced bit
> > being wrong cannot result in corrupted user memory.
>
> We might as well choose what pages to swap out according to a random number
> generator then.

Show me a number. Andrea showed his performance. And I claim that our
"random number generator" is really close to reality.

Linus