On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:01:10 +0100, Mel Gorman <m...@csn.ul.ie> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:04:31PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:39:05PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>From: Michal Nazarewicz <min...@mina86.com>
>>+       /* Make sure all pages are isolated. */
>>+       if (!ret) {
>>+               lru_add_drain_all();
>>+               drain_all_pages();
>>+               if (WARN_ON(test_pages_isolated(start, end)))
>>+                       ret = -EBUSY;
>>+       }

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:16:13 +0100, Mel Gorman <m...@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>Another global IPI seems overkill. Drain pages only from the local CPU
>(drain_pages(get_cpu()); put_cpu()) and test if the pages are isolated.

Is get_cpu() + put_cpu() required? Won't drain_local_pages() work?


drain_local_pages() calls smp_processor_id() without preemption
disabled.

Thanks, I wasn't sure if preemption is an issue.

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