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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] non-refcounted pages, application to slab?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:19:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020601250319o71e34376hcd7a964f2eb21961@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060125110031.GC30421@wotan.suse.de>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:30:03PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > we want to keep the reference counting for slab pages so that we can
> > use kmalloc'd memory in the block layer.

On 1/25/06, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> Does that happen now? Where is it needed (nbd or something I guess?)

See the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel/2981. I
think we're using them in quite a few places.

                             Pekka

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-25  9:39 Nick Piggin
2006-01-25  9:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-25  9:56   ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-25 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-25 10:57   ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-25 11:10     ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-25 11:18       ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-25 10:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-25 11:00   ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-25 11:19     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]

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