Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:41:17 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems- beware |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Regardless of the irrelevant BUG example, I sure got Arjan's point about > the common paths vs number of allocations in the kernel and I sure > considered that also in my original email as far I can tell (in the line > below the ~1000 number). I guess I wasn't clear but now I repeated more > clearly my point, I'd appreciate any further comment about that. Thanks! >
Hmm. AFAICS
* we must balance the GFP_DMA zone, otherwise an unexpected GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA allocation will fail. * linked list walking is evil.
What about moving page_lru into the zone structure?
shrink_mmap gets a zone_t pointer as a new parameter, and do_try_to_free_pages calls shrink_mmap for each zone that is low on free memory.
-- Manfred
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