On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > These mlocked pages don't need to be on a non-reclaimable list, > because we can find them again via the ptes when they become > unlocked, and there is no point background scanning them, because > they're always going to be locked while they're mlocked.
But there is something to be said for having a consistent scheme. Here we already introduce address space flags for one kind of unreclaimability. Isnt it possible to come up with a way to categorize pages that works (mostly) the same way for all types of pages with reclaim issues? -- 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/
