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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, dgc@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Free up page->private for compound pages
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 06:25:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405042502.GI11192@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704042102570.12297@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:04:38PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > > > Couldn't you use something like PageActive for the head page instead of
> > > > taking up a new flag, seeing as we don't put compound pages on the LRU?
> > > 
> > > We could set up an alias for now?
> > 
> > Yeah, definitely use an alias.
> > 
> Which one? PageActive is in use by the slab and the slab can use compound 
> pages.
> 
> So PG_reclaim? Its pretty esoteric.

Yeah, good suggestion.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05  3:19 Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05  3:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  3:38   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05  3:57     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  4:04       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05  4:25         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-04-05  4:34           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05 14:30             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-05 18:17               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05 18:40                 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-05 18:58                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05 19:50                     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-05 20:07                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-05 15:13 ` Dave Kleikamp

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