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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:37:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [VM PATCH] rotate_reclaimable_page fails frequently
To: Mika =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20=22Penttil=E4=22?= 
	<mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
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--- Mika Penttil? <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>  I think this BUGs easily because shrink_cache
> doesn't expect to see 
> unfreeable pages put back to LRU.

Not quite.  In shrink_list(), we never return pages
that were put back on the LRU by omitting their
addition to `ret_pages'.  shrink_cache() only releases
pages on this list.

Shantanu


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