Re: [PATCH v11 3/7] mm: introduce a common interface for balloonpages mobility

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:53:22PM -0200, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > If you get the barrier issue sorted out then feel free to add
> > 
> > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> 
> I believe we can drop the barriers stuff, as the locking scheme is now provinding
> enough protection against collisions between isolation page scanning and
> balloon_leak() page release (the major concern that has lead to the barriers
> originally)
> 
> I'll refactor this patch with no barriers and ensure a better commentary on the
> aforementioned locking scheme and resubmit, if it's OK to everyone
> 

Sounds good to me. When they are dropped again feel free to stick my ack
on for the compaction and migration parts. The virtio aspects are up to
someone else :)

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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