From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC 13/26] SLUB: Add SlabReclaimable() to avoid repeated reclaim attempts In-Reply-To: <46F13B6C.7020501@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20070901014107.719506437@sgi.com> <20070901014222.303468369@sgi.com> <46F13B6C.7020501@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , David Chinner List-ID: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > Why is it safe to not use the normal page flag bit operators > for these page flags operations? Because SLUB always modifies page flags under PageLock. -- 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