Re: [PATCH 2/5] lumpy: isolate_lru_pages wants to specifically takeactive or inactive pages

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> The caller of isolate_lru_pages specifically knows whether it wants
> to take either inactive or active pages.  Currently we take the
> state of the LRU page at hand and use that to scan for matching
> pages in the order sized block.  If that page is transiting we
> can scan for the wrong type.  The caller knows what they want and
> should be telling us.  Pass in the required active/inactive state
> and match against that.

The page cannot be transiting since we hold the lru lock?
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