Re: Magic in swap code. :-)

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:50:36 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Chirayu Patel wrote:

> Please let me have your comments on it. I am working on a patch for
> 2.1.90, which is almost complete.

It would be best to reserve the SWAP_READONLY behaviour
for swapping-from-a-tasks-context, since we don't really
care about kswapd blocking for disk I/O...

I'll test it and implement the swapping-RO-from-user-context
idea at the same time...

Rik.
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