From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261212AbVFAU67 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:58:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261242AbVFAU4Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:56:16 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:15763 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261249AbVFAUz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:55:29 -0400 Message-ID: <429E20B6.2000907@austin.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:55:18 -0500 From: Joel Schopp Reply-To: jschopp@austin.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12 References: <20050531112048.D2511E57A@skynet.csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20050531112048.D2511E57A@skynet.csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > - struct free_area *area; > struct page *buddy; > - > + ... > } > + > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags); > - return allocated; > + return count - allocated; > } > > + > + Other than the very minor whitespace changes above I have nothing bad to say about this patch. I think it is about time to pick in up in -mm for wider testing.