Re: [highmem bug report against -test5 and -test6] Re: [PATCH] Re:simple FS application that hangs 2.4-test5, mem mgmt problem or FS buffercache mgmt problem? (fwd)

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> Would it be "close enough" to simply clear the buffer heads of
> clean pages which make it to the front of the active list ?
> 
> Or is there another optimisation we could do to make the
> approximation even better ?

I'd prefer it to be done as part of the LRU aging - we do watn to age all
pages, and as part of the aging process we migth as well remove buffers
that are lying around.

		Linus

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