On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> Doesn't matter - you can just do it lazily. If you find a page that is
> locked, move it to the locked list. when unlocking a page you *always*
> move it back to the normal list. If someone else is still locking it,
> we'll move it back to the lock list on next reclaim pass.

Sounds similar to what Andrew is proposing.
 
> I have a half-finished patch from 6 months ago that does this, but never
> found time to complete it ;-(

Could I see that patch? Could have some good approaches in there that 
would be useful.

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