Re: [PATCH] Update Unevictable LRU and Mlocked Pages documentation

Christoph Lameter
2008-08-01T15:41:05Z

Lee Schermerhorn wrote:

> Really? You think it would be OK to leave maybe gigabytes of mlocked
> pages non-migratable? This would prevent defrag, hotplug, and cpuset

Whatever made you think that I would have that view?

I said that we have sufficient reasons I just do not think these reasons were
given in the document. The main reason was not page migration.

> The rationale that Rik mentioned--common handling, as much as
> possible--was the second reason mentioned in the text. Perhaps my
> wording could use some rework/clarification.

Yes please.