On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> The swapin readahead code tries to allocate (1 << page_cluster) pages at
> each swapin. 
> 
> This means there's a big chance of having (1 << page_cluster)
> "self-swap-out"'s at each swapin if we're under low memory.
> 
> Nasty. 

Actually its even more nasty if we keep failing in refill_inactive_scan()

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