From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:22:33 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages In-Reply-To: <20070129160921.7b362c8d.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20070125234458.28809.5412.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070126030753.03529e7a.akpm@osdl.org> <20070126114615.5aa9e213.akpm@osdl.org> <20070126122747.dde74c97.akpm@osdl.org> <20070129143654.27fcd4a4.akpm@osdl.org> <20070129225000.GG6602@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070129160921.7b362c8d.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Russell King , Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:37:29 -0800 (PST) > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > With a alloc_pages_range() one would be able to specify upper and lower > > boundaries. > > Is there a proposal anywhere regarding how this would be implemented? Yes it was discussed a while back in August. Look for alloc_pages_range. Sadly I have not been able to do work on it since there are too many other issues. -- 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