On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>  > I think Stephen C. Tweedie has some considerations about the cache
>  > flushing calls on do_swap_page().
> 
> Yup.  IIRC, he said that flushing cache at do_swap_page() (which I've
> tried at first) is not good, because it's the hot path and it causes
> another performance problem in apache or sendmail, where many
> processes share the pages in swap cache.

I guess he has some other comments about it... 

Again, Stephen ? 

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