From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@brutus.conectiva.com.br,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix: Init page count for all pages during higher order allocs
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 23:13:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E173NtU-0002Ak-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205021312370.999-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Thursday 02 May 2002 15:08, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> As someone else noted in this thread, the kernel tries to keep
> pages in use anyway, so omitting free pages won't buy you a great
> deal on its own. And I think it's to omit free pages that you want
> to distinguish the count 0 continuations from the count 0 frees?
Then why not count=-1 for the continuation pages?
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Daniel
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020429202446.A2326@in.ibm.com>
2002-04-29 17:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-30 5:31 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-04-30 14:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-30 15:08 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-04-30 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-02 8:54 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-05-02 13:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-05-02 21:13 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-05-03 12:24 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-05-03 13:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-05-07 10:11 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-05-07 7:34 ` Bharata B Rao
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