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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > I was hoping for something more elegant, but I am not adverse to writing
> > > my own get_free_page_from_range().
> >
> > Thats not a trivial task.
> 
> Especially because we never quite know the users of a
> physical page, so moving data around is somewhat hard.

I don't want to move them - I just want to collect all that are free and
then try to free some more. 

                            Vladimir Dergachev

> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rik
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