Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:59:20 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Tracking mlocked pages and moving them off the LRU |
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Doesn't matter - you can just do it lazily. If you find a page that is > locked, move it to the locked list. when unlocking a page you *always* > move it back to the normal list. If someone else is still locking it, > we'll move it back to the lock list on next reclaim pass.
Sounds similar to what Andrew is proposing.
> I have a half-finished patch from 6 months ago that does this, but never > found time to complete it ;-(
Could I see that patch? Could have some good approaches in there that would be useful.
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