Where is the decision to allocate a swap table made?
Where is the decision to allocate a swap table made?
Posted Feb 3, 2026 17:13 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Where is the decision to allocate a swap table made? by farnz
Parent article: Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table
The kernel will start reclaim long before it gets to that last free page. There are watermark levels that it tries to never go below.