Re: improved memory defragger

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:26:46 -0400


David S. Miller wrote:

> You need to add this after the copy_page():
>
> flush_page_to_ram(old_page);
> flush_page_to_ram(new_page);
>
> so that the kernel space dirty cache lines for the page data get
> sucked back out to main memory, and thus the user space mappings will
> view the uptodate contents of the physical pages, on architectures
> where this is relevant.

Thanks, I'll add those right away.

Regards,
Bill

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