Re: [RFC] memory hotremove patch take 2 [05/10] (make basic remove code)

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:09:29 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> 
> > +/*
> > + * Just an easy implementation.
> > + */
> > +static struct page *
> > +hotremove_migrate_alloc(struct page *page,
> > +			unsigned long private,
> > +			int **x)
> > +{
> > +	return alloc_page(GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE);
> > +}
> 
> This would need to reflect the zone in which you are performing hot 
> remove. Or is hot remove only possible in the higest zone?
> 
No. We'll allow hot remove in any zone-type.
My old patchest didn't include Mel-san's page grouping and just had
ZONE_MOVABLE, so I wrote this. Reflecting migration target's zone here
is reasobanle. 

Anyway, I think we'll need more complicated function here.

Thanks,
-Kame

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