From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:57:14 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove unswappable anonymous pages off the LRU Message-Id: <20070216135714.669701b4.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20070215171355.67c7e8b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D50B79.5080002@mbligh.org> <20070215174957.f1fb8711.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070215184800.e2820947.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070215191858.1a864874.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070215194258.a354f428.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D52F89.5020008@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: riel@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl List-ID: On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:15:46 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > > I tinkered with some similar radical ideas lately. Maybe a bit vector > > > could be used instead? For 1G of memory we would need > > > 2^(30 - PAGE_SHIFT / 8 = 2^(30-12-3) = 2^15 = 32k bytes of a bitmap. > > > > > > Seems to be reasonable? > > > > At that point, wouldn't it be easier to simply increase > > the size of struct page? I don't think they're power of > > two sized anyway, at least on 64 bit architectures. > > On 64 bit platforms we can add one unsigned long to get from 56 to 64 > bytes. > I sometimes dreams == struct page { ... struct zone *zone; ... }; #define page_zone(page) (page)->zone == but never tried ;) -Kame -- 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: email@kvack.org