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
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