Re: [PATCH] VM bugfix + rebalanced + code beauty

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 14:30:22 EST


On 31 May 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> > here is a patch (versus 2.4.0-test1-ac5 and 6) that fixes a number
> > of things in the VM subsystem.
> >
> > - since the pagecache can now contain dirty pages, we no
> > longer take them out of the pagecache when they get dirtied
>
> Does this mean, that we can do anonymous shared maps in the page
> cache?

I'm testing stuff now, but seem unable to reproduce your
observation. However, I *am* seeing high cpu usage by
kswapd ;)

I guess we really want to integrate the SHM swapout routine
with shrink_mmap...

regards,

Rik

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