On Tue, 1 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> Rik van Riel writes:
> > Then we will be scanning through memory looking for something to
> > swap out (otherwise we'd not be in need of swap space, right?).
> > At this point we can simply free up swap entries while scanning
> > through memory looking for stuff to swap out.
>
> Sounds a lot like my patch I posted a few weeks ago:
Not really. Your patch only reclaims swap cache pages that
hang around after a process exit()s. What I want to do is
reclaim swap space of pages which have been swapped in so
we can use that swap space to swap something else out.
regards,
Rik
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