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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:31:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050629163100.GA13336@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C14D93.7090303@yahoo.com.au>

Hi!

> >There are a couple of bits which imply ownership such as PG_slab,
> >PG_swapcache and PG_reserved which to my mind are all exclusive.
> >Perhaps those plus the PG_free could be combined into a owner field.  I
> >am unsure if the PG_freeing can be 'backed out' if not it may also combine?
> 
> I think there are a a few ways that bits can be reclaimed if we
> start digging. swsusp uses 2 which seems excessive though may be
> fully justified. Can PG_private be replaced by (!page->private)?
> Can filesystems easily stop using PG_checked?

It is possible that swsusp could reduce its bit usage... Current stuff
works, but probably does not need strong atomicity guarantees, and
could use some bit combination...
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-29 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-27  6:29 [rfc] lockless pagecache Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  6:32 ` [patch 1] mm: PG_free flag Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  6:32   ` [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  6:33     ` [patch 3] radix tree: lookup_slot Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  6:34       ` [patch 4] radix tree: lockless readside Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  6:34         ` [patch 5] mm: lockless pagecache lookups Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  6:35           ` [patch 6] mm: spinlock tree_lock Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 14:12     ` [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28  0:03       ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28  0:56         ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28  1:22         ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28  1:42           ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28  4:06             ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28  4:50               ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28  5:08                 ` [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page, " David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-28  5:34                   ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 14:19                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 15:43                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 17:01                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 23:10                         ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 21:32                   ` Jesse Barnes
2005-06-28 22:17                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 12:45     ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-06-28 13:16       ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 16:02         ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-29 16:31           ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 18:43             ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-29 21:22               ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 16:31         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-06-27  6:43 ` VFS scalability (was: [rfc] lockless pagecache) Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  7:13   ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-27  7:33     ` VFS scalability Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  7:44       ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-27  8:03         ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  7:46 ` [rfc] lockless pagecache Andrew Morton
2005-06-27  8:02   ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  8:15     ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-27  8:28       ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27  8:56     ` Lincoln Dale
2005-06-27  9:04       ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 18:14         ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 18:50           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-06-27 19:05             ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 19:22               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-27 19:42                 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-05 15:11                   ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-05 15:31                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-05 15:37                       ` Sonny Rao
2005-06-27 13:17     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-06-28  0:32       ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28  1:26         ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-27 14:08   ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-27 17:49   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-29 10:49 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-06-29 11:38   ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-30  3:32     ` Hirokazu Takahashi

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