Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix malloc() stall in zone_reclaim() and bringbehaviour more in line with expectations V3

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> hm, At least major two zone reclaim developer disagree my patch. Thus I have to
> agree with you, because I really don't hope to ignore other developer's opnion.
>
> So, as far as I understand, the conclusion of this thread are
>   - Drop my patch
>   - instead, implement improvement patch of (may_unmap && page_mapped()) case
>   - the documentation should be changed
>   - it's my homework(?)
>
> Can you agree this?

As far as I understand you: Yes. Unmapping can occur in more advanced zone
reclaim modes but the default needs to be as lightweight as possible.

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