From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:22:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 2/6] i386: quicklist support Message-Id: <20070311032213.GJ2986@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <20070311020923.19905.49260.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070311020934.19905.57850.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070311020934.19905.57850.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, holt@sgi.com, mpm@selenic.com On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > i386: Convert to quicklists > Implement the i386 management of pgd and pmds using quicklists. I approve, though it would be nice if ptes had an interface operating on struct page * to use. On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The i386 management of page table pages currently uses page sized slabs. > The page state is therefore mainly determined by the slab code. However, > i386 also uses its own fields in the page struct to mark special pages > and to build a list of pgds using the ->private and ->index field (yuck!). > This has been finely tuned to work right with SLAB but SLUB needs more > control over the page struct. Currently the only way for SLUB to support > these slabs is through special casing PAGE_SIZE slabs. > If we use quicklists instead then we can avoid the mess, and also the > overhead of manipulating page sized objects through slab. Hey! I did quite well given the constraints under which I was operating. -- wli