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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:14:22 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
   Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:08:37 -0500

   is completely bogus.  Without the tlb flush, the system may never update 
   the accessed bit on a page that is heavily being used.

It's intentional Ben, think about the high cost of the SMP invalidate
when kswapd is just scanning page tables.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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