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SubjectRe: [RFC] memory-hotplug: remove MIGRATE_ISOLATE from free_area->free_list
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> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> If you ask me, I'm not convinced that this improves anything.

On Thu, Sep 06 2012, Minchan Kim wrote:
> At least, it removes MIGRATE_ISOLATE type in free_area->free_list
> which is very irony type as I mentioned. I really don't like such
> type in free_area. What's the benefit if we remain code as it is?
> It could make more problem in future.

I don't really see current situation as making more problems in the
future compared to this code.

You are introducing a new state for a page (ie. it's not in buddy, but
in some new limbo state) and add a bunch of new code and thus bunch of
new bugs. I don't see how this improves things over having generic
code that handles moving pages between free lists.

PS. free_list does exactly what it says on the tin -> the pages are
free, ie. unallocated. It does not say that they can be allocated. ;)

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