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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
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Subject: Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:33:48 +0200
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On September 4, 2001 07:14 pm, Jan Harkes wrote:
> To get back on the thread I jumped into, I totally agree with Linus that
> writeout should be as soon as possible. Probably even as soon as an
> inactive dirty page hits the inactive dirty list, which would
> effectively turn the inactive dirty list into your laundry list.

No, we don't want that, we need the inactive list as a test of short-term
inactivity.  It doesn't make sense to begin the writeout until the page
has made it to the other end of the inactive ist.  Otherwise you just
revert to "one-hand-clock".

--
Daniel