Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: the page of MIGRATE_RESERVE don't insert into pcp

Christoph Lameter
2008-11-07T18:45:45Z

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Oh, do you mean splitting the list instead of searching? This is how it was
> originally implement and shot down on the grounds it increased the size of
> a per-cpu structure.

The situation may be better with the cpu_alloc stuff. The big pcp array in
struct zone for all possible processors will be gone and thus the memory
requirements will be less.