From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43EAA0F4.2060208@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:55:00 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Removing page->flags References: <1139381183.22509.186.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1139381183.22509.186.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Magnus Damm Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Magnus Damm List-ID: Magnus Damm wrote: > [RFC] Removing page-flags > > Moving type A bits: > > Instead of keeping the bits together, we spread them out and store a > pointer to them from pg_data_t. > This will annoy people who has a job to look into crash-dump's vmcore..like me ;) so, I don't like this idea. BTW, did you see Nigel's dynamic page-flags idea ? I think temporal page-flags can be replaced by some page tracking infrastructure. -- 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