From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16881.40893.35593.458777@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:35:09 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: Extend clear_page by an order parameter In-Reply-To: References: <20050108135636.6796419a.davem@davemloft.net> <16881.33367.660452.55933@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: "David S. Miller" , Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter writes: > clear_page clears one page of the specified order. Now you're really being confusing. A cluster of 2^n contiguous pages isn't one page by any normal definition. Call it "clear_page_cluster" or "clear_page_order" or something, but not "clear_page". Paul. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org