Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betweenmovable and non-movable pages

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:23:17 EST


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:37:29 -0800 (PST)
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With a alloc_pages_range() one would be able to specify upper and lower
> > boundaries.
>
> Is there a proposal anywhere regarding how this would be implemented?

Yes it was discussed a while back in August. Look for alloc_pages_range.
Sadly I have not been able to do work on it since there are too many
other issues.

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