Subject: Re: Page daemon behavior part N+1
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/24/2001 23:22:58
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:58:37AM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> There are other calls to uvm_pagedeactivate() which may be affected by
> making it not call pmap_clear_reference(). It seems pretty clear that
> just removing the pmap_clear_reference() there is going to cause them
> to deactivate the page and then immediately reactivate it because the
> bit is still set. So, it may be necessary to adjust those callers to
> avoid doing an extra pmap_clear_reference() in the page scanner.
Hm, I don't think I ever suggested taking the clear_reference out of
uvm_pagedeactivate(). Indeed, it should stay there, IMO.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>