Re: [PATCH 01/02] swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Sun May 26 2013 - 07:45:37 EST


> + /*
> + * By flagging sys_swapon, a sysadmin can tell us to
> + * either do sinle-time area discards only, or to just
> + * perform discards for released swap page-clusters.
> + * Now it's time to adjust the p->flags accordingly.
> + */
> + if (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_ONCE)
> + p->flags &= ~SWP_PAGE_DISCARD;
> + else if (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES)
> + p->flags &= ~SWP_AREA_DISCARD;

When using old swapon(8), this code turn off both flags, right?
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