Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Sun Aug 12 2012 - 19:25:33 EST


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:55:16PM -0300, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> The PATCH "mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages"
> hacks around putback_lru_pages() in order to allow ballooned pages to be
> re-inserted on balloon page list as if a ballooned page was like a LRU page.
>
> As ballooned pages are not legitimate LRU pages, this patch introduces
> putback_movable_pages() to properly cope with cases where the isolated
> pageset contains ballooned pages and LRU pages, thus fixing the mentioned
> inelegant hack around putback_lru_pages().
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your good work, Rafael.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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