From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16036B0055 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:57:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:57:14 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Split per-cpu list into one-list-per-migrate-type Message-ID: <20090819085714.GA24809@csn.ul.ie> References: <1250594162-17322-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1250594162-17322-2-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Vincent Li Cc: Linux Memory Management List , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org