From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45D52266.1040403@mbligh.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:17:58 -0800 From: Martin Bligh MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove unswappable anonymous pages off the LRU References: <20070215171355.67c7e8b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D50B79.5080002@mbligh.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: > >> Mine just created a locked list. If you stick them there, there's no >> need for a page flag ... and we don't abuse the lru pointers AGAIN! ;-) > > How would that work without a page flag? Without a flags there is no way > of checking that a page is on a particular list. Depends what contexts you need to access it from. If you know the state before and after, list_del and list_add work. -- 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