From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:11:10 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: [RFC:PATCH 00/07] VM File Tails Message-ID: <20070830101108.GD29635@lazybastard.org> References: <20070829205325.28328.67953.sendpatchset@norville.austin.ibm.com> <20070829213154.GB29635@lazybastard.org> <1188423942.6529.74.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> <20070829233802.GC29635@lazybastard.org> <1188440111.9221.3.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1188440111.9221.3.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel , linux-mm List-ID: On Wed, 29 August 2007 21:15:11 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > Once the data is packed into the tail, the page is freed. Later if the > page is needed, a new page is allocated and the tail is unpacked into > it. Then the tail is freed (via kfree). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Good. That part had evaded me. JA?rn -- There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain. -- Baron Rothschild -- 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