linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] mm/page

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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 07:58:32 +0900
From:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bunk@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mm/page_alloc.c: cleanups

>  > >  that's a bug, surely?  I bet there are plenty of places which should be
>  > >  using this hint.
>  >
>  > Hm, as far as I investigate
>  >
>  > 1. nobody used free_cold_page() in kernel code tree.
>  > 2. free_cold_page() doesn't exported.
>  >
>  > I investigated to 2.6.25-mm1.
>  > I don't understand yet why you think plenty....
>
>  Any place in the kernel which frees a page which is probably cache-cold
>  should be using this function.  (Including any place which caused the page
>  to be evicted from CPU cache by placing it under DMA).

Ah, Agreed.

Adrian, Can you remove free_cold_page() change in your patch?
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