Re: mm question

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 10:40:31 EST

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I was hoping for something more elegant, but I am not adverse to writing
> > my own get_free_page_from_range().
>
> Thats not a trivial task.

Especially because we never quite know the users of a
physical page, so moving data around is somewhat hard.

cheers,

Rik

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