Re: mm question

[volodya@mindspring.com]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I was hoping for something more elegant, but I am not adverse to writing
> > > > > my own get_free_page_from_range().
> > > >
> > > > Thats not a trivial task.
> > >
> > > Especially because we never quite know the users of a
> > > physical page, so moving data around is somewhat hard.
> >
> > I don't want to move them - I just want to collect all that are free
> > and then try to free some more.
> 
> I could put it on the TODO list for my VM stuff, but it's
> not exactly near the top of the list so it might take quite
> a while more before I get around to this...

Thanks, but I was more hoping for the advice on how I can make it myself.. 
the same way as bt848 driver has its own memory allocation functions.

                                      Vladimir Dergachev

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> cheers,
> 
> Rik
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