From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix: Init page count for all pages during higher order allocs Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 23:13:34 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins , Suparna Bhattacharya Cc: Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@brutus.conectiva.com.br, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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? -- Daniel -- 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/