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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 2/4] hugetlb: Try to grow hugetlb pool for MAP_PRIVATE mappings
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:09:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192140583.20859.40.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071001151758.12825.26569.stgit@kernel>

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 08:17 -0700, Adam Litke wrote:
> 
>         spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
> -       enqueue_huge_page(page);
> +       if (surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]) {
> +               update_and_free_page(page);
> +               surplus_huge_pages--;
> +               surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]--;
> +       } else {
> +               enqueue_huge_page(page);
> +       }
>         spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
>  } 

Why does it matter that these surplus pages are tracked per-node?

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-11 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 15:17 [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing V6 Adam Litke
2007-10-01 15:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] hugetlb: Move update_and_free_page Adam Litke
2007-10-02 10:03   ` Bill Irwin
2007-10-01 15:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] hugetlb: Try to grow hugetlb pool for MAP_PRIVATE mappings Adam Litke
2007-10-11 22:09   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-10-12 12:50     ` [Libhugetlbfs-devel] " Mel Gorman
2007-10-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] hugetlb: Try to grow hugetlb pool for MAP_SHARED mappings Adam Litke
2007-10-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl Adam Litke
2007-10-02  9:41 ` [PATCH 0/4] [hugetlb] Dynamic huge page pool resizing V6 Bill Irwin

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