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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705211006550.26282@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705201456.26283.ak@suse.de>

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Besides with the scarcity of pageflags it might make sense to do "64 bit only"
> flags at some point.

There is no scarcity of page flags. There is

1. Hoarding by Andrew

2. Waste by Sparsemem (section flags no longer necessary with
   virtual memmap)

2 will hopefully be addressed soon and with that 1 will go away.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-21 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18  4:08 Nick Piggin
2007-05-18  4:47 ` David Miller, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18  5:12   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18  5:22     ` David Miller, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18  5:31       ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 18:15     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18  7:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18  7:32   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18  7:43     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-18  7:59       ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18  9:42 ` David Howells
2007-05-19  1:30   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 12:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-18 15:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-19  1:22   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19 17:53   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-20 22:50     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-18 18:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 20:37   ` Luck, Tony
2007-05-21  6:28     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-19  1:25   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-19  2:03     ` [rfc] increase struct page size?! (now sparsemem vmemmap) Christoph Lameter
2007-05-19 15:43       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-19 18:15     ` [rfc] increase struct page size?! William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-19 18:25       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20  4:10         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-20 12:56           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-21 17:08             ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-05-22  0:30               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22  0:38                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22  0:58                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-05-22  9:44                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-19 22:09       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-20  7:26         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21  9:12         ` Helge Hafting
2007-05-21  9:45           ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-20  5:22       ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-20  8:46         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-20  9:25           ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21  8:08             ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21  9:27               ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 11:26                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22  0:52                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-21 22:43                 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-22  1:08                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22  1:13                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-22  1:39                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22  1:57                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22  5:04                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-22  6:24                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 10:59                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-21  9:31               ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-21 17:06             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20 17:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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