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    DateTue, 22 Nov 2005 22:36:41 -0800 (PST)
    FromChristoph Lameter <>
    SubjectRe: [PATCH]: Free pages from local pcp lists under tight memory conditions
    On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
    
    > > [PATCH]: This patch free pages (pcp->batch from each list at a time) from
    > > local pcp lists when a higher order allocation request is not able to 
    > > get serviced from global free_list.
    > > 
    > > This should help fix some of the earlier failures seen with order 1 allocations.
    > > 
    > > I will send separate patches for:
    > > 
    > > 1- Reducing the remote cpus pcp
    
    That is already partially done by drain_remote_pages(). However, that 
    draining is specific to this processors remote pagesets in remote 
    zones.
    
    > This significantly duplicates the existing drain_local_pages().
    
    We need to extract __drain_pcp from all these functions and clearly 
    document how they differ. Seth probably needs to call __drain_pages for 
    each processor.
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