Re: page_launder() bug

Kai Henningsen
2001-05-14T07:35:26Z

torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 13.05.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105131330350.20613-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>:

> And that's why I'd rather have generic support for _any_ page mapping that
> wants to drop pages early than have specific logic for swapping.
> Historically, we've always had very good results from trying to avoid
> having special cases and instead trying to find what the common rules
> might be.

Just a thought: isn't a dead swap page a rather similar condition to a
page in a file without any links, open file descriptors, or open mmaps? In
both cases, writeback really makes no sense.

MfG Kai