Re: [PATCH] VM fixes against 2.4.4-ac6

2001-05-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > The following patch addresses two issues: > > > - Buffer cache pages in the inactive lists are not getting their age > increased if they get touched by getblk (which will set the referenced bit > on the page). page_launder() simply clea

[PATCH] VM fixes against 2.4.4-ac6

2001-05-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, The following patch addresses two issues: - Buffer cache pages in the inactive lists are not getting their age increased if they get touched by getblk (which will set the referenced bit on the page). page_launder() simply cleans the referenced bit on such pages and moves them to the acti