From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qa0-f53.google.com (mail-qa0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABA86B0031 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:35:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id cm18so2473093qab.12 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net. [2001:558:fe2d:43:76:96:30:56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id n4si10718492qeu.23.2014.01.16.10.35.01 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:35:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:34:59 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/9] mm: rearrange struct page In-Reply-To: <20140114180055.21691733@viggo.jf.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20140114180042.C1C33F78@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20140114180055.21691733@viggo.jf.intel.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, penberg@kernel.org On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Dave Hansen wrote: > > This makes it *MUCH* more clear how the first few fields of > 'struct page' get used by the slab allocators. I think this adds to the confusion. What you want to know is which other fields overlap a certain field. After this patch you wont have that anymore. -- 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