Re: [RFC] per thread page reservation patch

[Andrew Morton]

Vladimir Saveliev <vs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +int perthread_pages_reserve(int nrpages, int gfp)
>  +{
>  +	int i;
>  +	struct list_head  accumulator;
>  +	struct list_head *per_thread;
>  +
>  +	per_thread = get_per_thread_pages();
>  +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&accumulator);
>  +	list_splice_init(per_thread, &accumulator);
>  +	for (i = 0; i < nrpages; ++i) {

This will end up reserving more pages than were asked for, if
current->private_pages_count is non-zero.  Deliberate?
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