Re: [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Split per-cpu list into one-list-per-migrate-type

[Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:57:00PM -0700, Vincent Li wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > +	/*
> > +	 * We only track unreclaimable, reclaimable and movable on pcp lists.
> 			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
> Is it unmovable? I don't see unreclaimable migrate type on pcp lists. 
> Just ask to make sure I undsterstand the comment right.
> 

It should have said unmovable. Sorry

> > +	 * Free ISOLATE pages back to the allocator because they are being
> > +	 * offlined but treat RESERVE as movable pages so we can get those
> > +	 * areas back if necessary. Otherwise, we may have to free
> > +	 * excessively into the page allocator
> > +	 */
> > +	if (migratetype >= MIGRATE_PCPTYPES) {
> > +		if (unlikely(migratetype == MIGRATE_ISOLATE)) {
> > +			free_one_page(zone, page, 0, migratetype);
> > +			goto out;
> > +		}
> > +		migratetype = MIGRATE_MOVABLE;
> > +	}
> > +
> 
> Vincent Li
> Biomedical Research Center
> University of British Columbia
> 

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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