From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA28044 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 08:39:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:08:00 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl Subject: Re: Lazy page reclamation on SMP machines: memory barriers In-Reply-To: <199803242254.WAA03274@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > I'm in London until the weekend, but I hope to have the lazy page > stealing in a fit state to release shortly after getting back thanks to > this. Then that would be the end of memory fragmentation. Since marking something as stealable has no real performance penalty, we could just mark so much memory stealable that we've got 3 128k area's stealable... Rik. +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Linux: - LinuxHQ MM-patches page | Scouting webmaster | | - kswapd ask-him & complain-to guy | Vries cubscout leader | | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | | +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+