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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	dhowells@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:22:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419AC3E7.9010904@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419AC1C6.4050403@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:

> 
> Good idea. BTW, any reason why the following (very)micro optimisation
> shouldn't go in?
> 
> It currently only picks up a couple of things under fs/, but might help
> reduce other ifdefery around the place. For example mm.h: page_count and
> get_page.
> 

Like this, perhaps? It does actually introduce a change in the object
code. Namely hugetlb's put_page will now also be done inline for non
compound pages - maybe this change is unacceptable though, but it does
cut down the ifdefs.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-17  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-16 18:48 [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory David Howells
2004-11-16 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-16 19:41   ` David Howells
2004-11-17  1:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-17  2:28   ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17  3:13     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:22       ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-11-17  3:37         ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:42           ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-17 12:03       ` David Howells
2004-11-17 11:47     ` David Howells
2004-11-17 11:43   ` David Howells

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