On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Agreed. When I put this together first, I felt I would be able to isolate
> pages of different types on migratelist but that is not the case as migration
> would not be able to tell the difference between a LRU page and a pagetable
> page. I'll rename cc->migratelist to cc->migratelist_lru with the view to
> potentially adding cc->migratelist_pagetable or cc->migratelist_slab later.
Right. The particular issue with moving page table pages or slab pages is
that you do not have a LRU. The page state needs to be established in a
different way and there needs to be mechanism to ensure that the page is
not currently being setup or torn down. For the slab pages I have relied
on page->inuse > 0 to signify a page in use. I am not sure how one would
realize that for page table pages.
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