From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:27:59 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 00/23] Slab defragmentation V6 In-Reply-To: <1194555495.5295.27.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20071107011130.382244340@sgi.com> <1194535612.6214.9.camel@localhost> <1194555495.5295.27.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Mel Gorman , akpm@linux-foundatin.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > ZONE_MOVABLE also contains mlocked pages that are also not reclaimable. > > The question is at what level would it be possible to make them MOVABLE? > > It may take some improvements to the kick() methods to make eviction more > > reliable. Allowing the moving of objects in the kick() methods will > > likely get usthere. > > Christoph: Although mlocked pages are not reclaimable, they ARE > migratable. You fixed that a long time ago. [And I just verified with > memtoy.] Doesn't this make them "movable"? I know. They are movable but not reclaimable. -- 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