From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:39:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00000142e7e4c89c-f8f8fab4-687c-4fe0-b0ac-c4b9ec25d739-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131211223631.51094A3D@viggo.jf.intel.com>
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.
> Conveniently, they are unioned together. This means that code
> can use them interchangably, which gets horribly confusing like
> with this nugget from slab.c:
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-11 22:36 Dave Hansen
2013-12-11 22:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly Dave Hansen
2013-12-11 22:47 ` David Rientjes
2013-12-12 13:16 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-12-11 22:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru David Rientjes
2013-12-12 17:39 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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