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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/12] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list()
On 06/14/2010 07:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> shrink_page_list() sets up a pagevec to release pages as according as they
> are free. It uses significant amounts of stack on the pagevec. This
> patch adds pages to be freed via pagevec to a linked list which is then
> freed en-masse at the end. This avoids using stack in the main path that
> potentially calls writepage().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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