Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423020AbXBBFWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:22:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423098AbXBBFWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:22:55 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:45721 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423020AbXBBFWy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:22:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:22:33 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andrew Morton cc: Russell King , Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 19 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/