Re: Race in new page migration code?

[Magnus Damm]

On 1/17/06, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Magnus Damm wrote:
> > On 1/16/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>OK (either way is fine), but you should still drop the __isolate_lru_page
> >>>nonsense and revert it like my patch does.
> >>
> >>Ok with me. Magnus: You needed the __isolate_lru_page for some other
> >>purpose. Is that still the case?
> >
> >
> > It made sense to have it broken out when it was used twice within
> > vmscan.c, but now when the patch changed a lot and the function is
> > used only once I guess the best thing is to inline it as Nick
> > suggested. I will re-add it myself later on when I need it. Thanks.
> >
> > / magnus
> >
>
> I'm curious, what do you need it for?

I used that function when I worked on a memory resource control
prototype. This prototype has been superseeded by the pzone memory
resource controller posted on ckrm-tech recently.

/ magnus
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