Re: swap question

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:52:45 -0400

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Benjamin C R LaHaise wrote:
> The only places I see that read pg_swap_entry are in swap.h and both are
> protected by testing the PG_swap_cache bit. Please don't start clearing
> this field... In my personal tree I've moved it into a union in struct
> page that overlaps with some other fields (our struct page is already huge
> compared to other unices). There are a couple of other cases where we can
> make these savings.

OK, just a miscue on my part ... I see there's no need to clear it out
anyway.

Regards,
Bill

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