linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: make do_move

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Message-ID: <48CA7AE4.2080007@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:21:24 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nathalie Furmento <nathalie.furmento@...ri.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make do_move_pages() complexity linear

Brice Goglin wrote:

> I don't think so. If this happens, the while loop will skip those pages.
> (while in the regular case, the while loop does 0 iterations).
> The while loop is still here to make sure we are processing the right pm
> entry. What the patch changes is only that we don't uselessly look at
> the already-processed beginning of pm.

Ahh.. I missed that.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
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