Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:01:24 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: quicklists confuse meminfo | |
* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> Right, also the quicklist_trim() in idle() is freeing at max 16 pages
> in one go. According to the quicklist_trim() code we keep up to
> (node_free_pages / 16) in the quicklist unconditionally, which seems
> rather odd as well.
i suspect the right approach would be to get rid of them altogether and
to convert the code to RCU and plain old alloc/free instead.
Ingo
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