Re: mm question

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 11:48:55 EST


On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > > I was hoping for something more elegant, but I am not adverse to writing
> > > > my own get_free_page_from_range().
> > >
> > > Thats not a trivial task.
> >
> > Especially because we never quite know the users of a
> > physical page, so moving data around is somewhat hard.
>
> I don't want to move them - I just want to collect all that are free
> and then try to free some more.

I could put it on the TODO list for my VM stuff, but it's
not exactly near the top of the list so it might take quite
a while more before I get around to this...

http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/

cheers,

Rik

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