Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761010AbXEJSHl (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 14:07:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757391AbXEJSHL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 14:07:11 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:53984 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756816AbXEJSHI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 14:07:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:07:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Yasunori Goto cc: Linux Kernel ML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [RFC] memory hotremove patch take 2 [03/10] (drain all pages) In-Reply-To: <20070509120337.B90A.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20070509115506.B904.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20070509120337.B90A.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com> 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: 639 Lines: 15 On Wed, 9 May 2007, Yasunori Goto wrote: > This patch add function drain_all_pages(void) to drain all > pages on per-cpu-freelist. > Page isolation will catch them in free_one_page. This is only draining the pcps of the local processor. I would think that you need to drain all other processors pcps of this zone as well. And there is no need to drain this processors pcps of other zones. - 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/