| Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:24:29 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/12] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list() |
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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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