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Subject: Re: TAKE - backport kswapd changes from later kernels 
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What to do you think... time to move the tree to pre5?
At Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:10:03 -0500 (CDT),
Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Modid:  2.3.99pre2-xfs:slinx:58410a
> Date:  Tue Apr 18 09:09:35 PDT 2000
> Workarea:  clink.americas.sgi.com:/data/clink/io/lord/xfs-linux
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> The following file(s) were checked into:
>   bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.3.99pre2-xfs
> 
> linux/mm/vmscan.c - 1.24
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/> linux/mm/vmscan.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.24&r2=text&tr2=1.23&f=h
> 	- Backport changes to kswapd into the xfs tree - this appeared to be having
> 	  bad interactions with XFS (memory corruption). I was able to do much more
> 	  with XFS after this change. [ The basic problem in kswapd was that it
> 	  ran for its complete timeslice even when there was nothing to do. ]