Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:18:54 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][8/8] mm: lru interface change |
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Stone Wang wrote: >>I may have missed something very trivial, but... why are they on a >>list at all if they don't get scanned > > > Get the locked pages on a list is necessary for page management, > scatter the locked pages around isnt a good idea. >
This doesn't make sense. Whether or not they're on a list does not change the fact that they may be "scattered".
> Also, we could add some kinds of scan to the locked pages, > if we find that it's necessary. >
This is a valid reason. But at present you don't scan them, do you? So you should add them to a list in patch 9 where you add the machanism to scan them as well, right?
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