Re: [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Split per-cpu list intoone-list-per-migrate-type

[Vincent Li]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> +	/*
> +	 * We only track unreclaimable, reclaimable and movable on pcp lists.
			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
Is it unmovable? I don't see unreclaimable migrate type on pcp lists. 
Just ask to make sure I undsterstand the comment right.

> +	 * Free ISOLATE pages back to the allocator because they are being
> +	 * offlined but treat RESERVE as movable pages so we can get those
> +	 * areas back if necessary. Otherwise, we may have to free
> +	 * excessively into the page allocator
> +	 */
> +	if (migratetype >= MIGRATE_PCPTYPES) {
> +		if (unlikely(migratetype == MIGRATE_ISOLATE)) {
> +			free_one_page(zone, page, 0, migratetype);
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +		migratetype = MIGRATE_MOVABLE;
> +	}
> +

Vincent Li
Biomedical Research Center
University of British Columbia
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