Re: shrink_mmap SMP race fix

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 10:43:10 EST


On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>[..] If something the higher is the priority the
>harder we should shrink the cache (that's the opposite that the patch
>achieves). Usually priority is always zero and the below check has no
>effect. [..]

thinko, I noticed I was wrong about this, apologies (prio start with 6 and
0 is the most severe one).

anyway I keep not enjoying such path for all the other reasons. It should
at _least_ be done outside the loop before calculating `count`.

Andrea

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