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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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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