Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:58:44 -0200 | From | Rafael Aquini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 3/7] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility |
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:53:22PM -0200, Rafael Aquini wrote: > > > <SNIP> > > > If you get the barrier issue sorted out then feel free to add > > > > > > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> > > > > > > > I believe we can drop the barriers stuff, as the locking scheme is now provinding > > enough protection against collisions between isolation page scanning and > > balloon_leak() page release (the major concern that has lead to the barriers > > originally) > > > > I'll refactor this patch with no barriers and ensure a better commentary on the > > aforementioned locking scheme and resubmit, if it's OK to everyone > > > > Sounds good to me. When they are dropped again feel free to stick my ack > on for the compaction and migration parts. The virtio aspects are up to > someone else :) >
Andrew,
If we get no further objections raised on dropping those barriers, would you like me to resubmit the whole series rebased on the latest -next, or just this (new) refactored patch?
-- Rafael
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