Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:01:24 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: quicklists confuse meminfo |
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* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> Right, also the quicklist_trim() in idle() is freeing at max 16 pages > in one go. According to the quicklist_trim() code we keep up to > (node_free_pages / 16) in the quicklist unconditionally, which seems > rather odd as well.
i suspect the right approach would be to get rid of them altogether and to convert the code to RCU and plain old alloc/free instead.
Ingo
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