From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] VM stable again?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:01:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000515200116.E24812@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005151157240.20410-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:12:03PM -0300
Hi,
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:12:03PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> the patch below makes sure processes won't "eat" the pages
> another process is freeing and seems to avoid the nasty
> out of memory situations that people have seen.
One other thought here --- there is another way to achieve this.
Make try_to_free_pages() return a struct page *. That will not
only achieve some measure of SMP locality, it also guarantees that
the page freed will be reacquired by the task which did the work to
free it.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-15 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-15 15:12 Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 15:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-15 15:27 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 16:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-15 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-15 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-05-15 19:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-05-15 19:10 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 19:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-05-15 19:27 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-15 19:22 ` Ingo Molnar
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