Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: the page of MIGRATE_RESERVE don't insert intopcp

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 13:45:46 EST


On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Oh, do you mean splitting the list instead of searching? This is how it was
> originally implement and shot down on the grounds it increased the size of
> a per-cpu structure.

The situation may be better with the cpu_alloc stuff. The big pcp array in
struct zone for all possible processors will be gone and thus the memory
requirements will be less.
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