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DateSun, 9 Mar 2008 13:01:24 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: 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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