On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 05:25:31PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:14:39PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > How about the following as an alternative to dropp migrate_prep? > > Yep this is what I'd like too... btw in the comments you also mention > IPI but I guess that's ok. It was an oversight. I've corrected it now. > About the cost I'm not sure but I would > expect the cost of this to be even higher because it also has to run > the scheduler unlike a real IPI. > Fair point. I wouldn't be too sure what the relative costs are but either way it's bad and unnecessary in the case of compaction. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>