From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <442097EE.2000601@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:18:54 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH][8/8] mm: lru interface change References: <441FF007.6020901@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Stone Wang Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org