From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Amir Hermelin <amir@montilio.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PG_reserved bug
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 05:09:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126130927.GM8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004501c3b41e$38b3c570$1d01a8c0@CARTMAN>
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:07:13PM +0200, Amir Hermelin wrote:
> Can't I just not use the reserved bit (therefore effectively use the
> refcount), and keep the minimal count at 1 or 2? Will that have the same
> effect as setting the reserved bit?
You can do that, yes. There are certain disadvantages to doing so, e.g.
poor interactions with higher-order allocations.
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 10:09 PG_reserved bug Amir Hermelin
2003-11-26 10:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 12:45 ` Amir Hermelin
2003-11-26 12:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 13:07 ` Amir Hermelin
2003-11-26 13:09 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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