Re: [PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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