linux-kernel - Re: [patch 05/19] split LRU lists into anon & file sets

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801081441090.4678@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:42:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: [patch 05/19] split LRU lists into anon & file sets

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > Also would it be possible to create generic functions that can move pages 
> > in pagevecs to an arbitrary lru list?
> 
> What would you use those functions for?

We keep on duplicating the pagevec lru operation functions in mm/swap.c. 
Some generic stuff would reduce the code size.
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