From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dax.scot.redhat.com (sct@dax.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.242]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA23855 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:49:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:49:07 GMT Message-Id: <199901102149.VAA01490@dax.scot.redhat.com> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: tiny patch, reduces kernel memory usage (memory_save patch) In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Max Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:00:52 +0100 (MET), Max said: > I am really sorry to disturb with something that is supposed to be discussed > in linux-kernel, but looks linux-kernel is terribly lagged, and also my > original message (sent on Jan 7) got somehow ignored. > - unsigned int unused; > - unsigned long map_nr; /* page->map_nr == page - mem_map */ The unused field needs to go. Fine. The map_nr field is needed to avoid a division when we try to find a page number from a struct page. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org