Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am working on a direct reclaim strategy to free up large blocks of > > > contiguous pages. The part I have is working fine, but I am finding a > > > hundreds of pages that are being used for inodes that I need to reclaim. I > > > tried purging the inode lists using a variation of prune_icache() but it > > > is not working out. > > > > > > Given a struct page, that one knows is an inode, can anyone suggest the > > > best way to find the inode using it and free it? > > > > Simple answer: invalidate_mapping_pages(page->mapping, start, end). > > > > The majority of pages I am seeing no longer have page->mapping set. Does > this mean they are in the process of being cleared up?
They're just anonymous pages, aren't they? But you said "pages that are being used for inodes". Confused. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
