On August 20, 2001 11:50 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > If you've seen streaming IO pages getting evicted before being used,
> > I'd like to know about it because something is broken in that case.
>
> I've seen the first page read by "swapin_readahead()" (which is the actual
> page we want to swapin) be evicted _before_ we could actually use it (so
> the read_swap_cache_async() call had to read the same page _again_ from
> disk).
It's not streaming IO, but whoops, is that even with yesterday's
SetPageReferenced patch to do_swap_page?
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