On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Yasunori Goto wrote: > > > This patch is for supporting making page unused. > > > > Isolate pages by capturing freed pages before inserting free_area[], > > buddy allocator. > > If you have an idea for avoiding spin_lock(), please advise me. > > Using the zone lock instead may avoid to introduce another lock? Or is the > new lock here for performance reasons? > > Isnt it possible to just add another flavor of pages like what Mel has > been doing with reclaimable and movable? I.e. add another category of free > pages to Mel's scheme called isolated and use Mel's function to move stuff > over there? > Mel-san's idea seems good. So we'll rewrite the whole this patch. Thank you. -Kame - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/