Re: [PATCH 1/3] Use zonelists instead of zones when direct reclaiming pages

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 17:06:49 EST


On (08/08/07 10:38), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce:
> Good idea. Maybe it could be taken further by passing the zonelist also
> into shrink_zones()?
>

Yeah, it could. It's a cleanup even though it doesn't simplify the
iterator. When the patch was done first, it was because multiple
iterators were needed to go through the zones in the zonelist. With this
cleanup, only one iterator was needed but it could be carried through
for consistency.

Thanks

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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