Re: pre2 swap_out() changes

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Since no process calls swap_out() directly, I dont see any sense on the
> comment above. 

Stage #2 is to allow them to call refill_inactive() in the low-memory case
(right now processes can only do "page_launder()" in alloc_pages(), and I
think that is wrong - it means that the only one scanning page tables etc
is kswapd)

		Linus

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