From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45F6DFA2.9060106@goop.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:30:10 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 0/4] Arch independent quicklists V2 References: <20070313071325.4920.82870.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070313005334.853559ca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F65ADA.9010501@yahoo.com.au> <20070313035250.f908a50e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F685C6.8070806@yahoo.com.au> <20070313041551.565891b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F68B4B.9020200@yahoo.com.au> <20070313044756.b45649ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45F69287.8040509@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <45F69287.8040509@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > However we still have to visit those to-be-unmapped parts of the page > table, > to find the pages and free them. So we still at least need to bring it > into > cache for the read... at which point, the store probably isn't a big > burden. Why not try to find a place to stash a linklist pointer and link them all together? Saves the pulldown pagetable walk altogether. J -- 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