Re: [patch] care about the age of the pte even if we are low onmemory

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Neil Conway wrote:
>
>>Ouch - let's try to keep those comments up to date folks.  Good comments
>
>You are plain right, excuse me (I have not read the comment). When the
>patch will be applyed I'll provide an update to the comment. Thanks for
>pointing this out.

As Neil pointed out I have not updated the comment, please apply to
2.3.13:

--- 2.3.13/mm/vmscan.c	Thu Aug 12 02:53:26 1999
+++ /tmp/vmscan.c	Tue Aug 17 02:28:09 1999
@@ -50,10 +50,7 @@
 	if (pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*page_table))
 		goto out_failed_unlock;
 
-	/*
-	 * Dont be too eager to get aging right if
-	 * memory is dangerously low.
-	 */
+	/* Don't look at this pte if it's been accessed recently. */
 	if (pte_young(pte)) {
 		/*
 		 * Transfer the "accessed" bit from the page

Andrea

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