Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:49:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:49:26 -0500 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:51218 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:49:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:48:55 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Alan Cox , Subject: Re: mm question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.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 On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote: > 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. I could put it on the TODO list for my VM stuff, but it's not exactly near the top of the list so it might take quite a while more before I get around to this... http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/ cheers, Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/