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SubjectRe: [RFC:Patch: 000/008](memory hotplug) rough idea of pgdat removing
Yasunori Goto wrote:

>>> Thanks for your comment.
>> Duh. Then the use of RCU would also mean that all of reclaim must
>> be in a rcu period. So reclaim cannot sleep anymore.
>
> I use srcu_read_lock() (sleepable rcu lock) if kernel must be sleep for
> page reclaim. So, my patch basic idea is followings.

But that introduces more overhead in __alloc_pages.


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