linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

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Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:22:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between
 movable and non-movable pages

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:37:29 -0800 (PST)
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> 
> > With a alloc_pages_range() one would be able to specify upper and lower 
> > boundaries.
> 
> Is there a proposal anywhere regarding how this would be implemented?

Yes it was discussed a while back in August. Look for alloc_pages_range. 
Sadly I have not been able to do work on it since there are too many 
other issues.

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