Re: pre2 swap_out() changes

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> If the page truly is new (because of some other user), then page_launder()
> won't drop it, and it doesn't matter. But dropping it from the VM means
> that the list handling can work right, and that the page will be aged (and
> thrown out) at the same rate as other pages.

What about the amount of faults this potentially causes? 

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