Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:04:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:04:18 -0500 Received: from mpdr0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net ([206.141.239.206]:37336 "EHLO mailhost.det.ameritech.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:04:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:02:11 -0500 (EST) From: volodya@mindspring.com Reply-To: volodya@mindspring.com To: Rik van Riel cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mm question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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... Thanks, but I was more hoping for the advice on how I can make it myself.. the same way as bt848 driver has its own memory allocation functions. Vladimir Dergachev > > 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/