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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: booked-page-flag.patch
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:45:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070215004504.023a90f0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)


Sorry, we're seriously, seriously, seriously short on flags in the page
struct and this patch is going to need one heck of a good case for it to be
acceptable.

Even then, we should put a lot of effort into finding some way of avoiding
adding that page flag.  One option might be to add a new radix-tree tag,
and defining it as "for filesytem usage".  Or use PG_checked (which should
be renamed to to PG_fs_misc) (if that doesn't conflict with ext4's existing
use of PG_checked).  Or use !PageMappedToDisk()?

These patches seem to have a number of issues - we should get them properly
commented and properly changelogged then get them on the wire for decent
review before investing too much in them, please.

             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-15  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-15  8:45 Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-15 14:03 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 17:18 ` booked-page-flag.patch Eric Sandeen
2007-02-15 17:30   ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 20:56     ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 21:07       ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 23:23         ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16  7:30           ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16  7:46             ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16  7:56               ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16  8:06                 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:14                   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger
2007-02-16 16:02               ` booked-page-flag.patch Dave Kleikamp
2007-02-16 15:03           ` booked-page-flag.patch Theodore Tso
2007-02-15 20:21   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:17   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger

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