From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id k40so127492ugc for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:19:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <84144f020601250319o71e34376hcd7a964f2eb21961@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:19:36 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [RFC] non-refcounted pages, application to slab? In-Reply-To: <20060125110031.GC30421@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060125093909.GE32653@wotan.suse.de> <84144f020601250230s2d5da5d9jf11f754f184d495b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125110031.GC30421@wotan.suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: 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 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 -- 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