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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:20:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Drop PageReclaim()
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> > The only user of PageReclaim is shrink_list(). The pages processed
> > by shrink_list have earlier been taken off the LRU. So !PageLRU is always 
> > true.
> 
> On return from shrink_page_list(),
> doesn't shrink_inactive_list() put those pages back on the LRU?

Yes but it has cleared PageReclaim by then.

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