From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:56:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5h5v4$frc$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081827102.1593.227.camel@cube>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>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.
Since Linux doesn't swap, "fixed" would mean returning zero for these
values. I don't thing even BSD swaps anymore, does it? In any case,
Linux never did.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-13 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 3:31 [PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap Albert Cahalan
2004-04-13 3:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-13 4:27 ` Matt Mackall
2004-04-13 4:47 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-04-13 16:56 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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2004-04-03 4:18 Matt Mackall
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