> but ;-)
>
> Looking at the locking and trying to think SMP (grunt) though, I
> don't like the thought of taking two locks for each page until
> 100%. The data in that block is toast anyway. A big hairy SMP
> box has to feel reclaim_page(). (they probably feel the zone lock
> too.. probably would like to allocate blocks)
Indeed, but this is a separate problem. Doing per-CPU private
(small, 8-32 page?) free lists is probably a good idea, but I
don't really think it's related to kreclaimd ;)
regards,
Rik
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