>This is because 'swapped' data is added to the cache. It also
>is because without it kswapd would not free memory in swap_out().
>Then, because it didn't free memory, it would continue to swap
>out more and more and still more with no effect (remember the
>removal of page aging?).
Nono, I reversed the vmscan changes on my tree. On my tree when swap_out
returns 1 it has really freed a page ;). I have many other differences...
I am going to do some other interesting benchmark right now to understand
if really my choices are the best as I think...
Andrea Arcangeli
PS to see other things grab arca-51.
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