From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert pgtable cache to slab
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:42:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1is9etnev.fsf@wilson.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1zn2qtpyo.fsf@wilson.mkp.net>
>>>>> "Tony" = Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:
>>> Perhaps "zero_cache" isn't as descriptive a name as it might be
>>> (not that I have any better suggestions :-(
>> Maybe pgtable_zero_cache or something?
Tony> I thought along those lines at first, but actually this cache
Tony> would be useful for any allocation that needed a page that has
Tony> been pre-zeroed. So I don't think that the "pgtable" part is
Tony> helpful. Some sense of the fact that the objects are one page
Tony> big is what I was looking for.
Yeah. I suspect that's why Bill named it that in the first place.
What about zeroed_page_cache?
Now, this opens up another can of worms in terms of where to
initialize that cache in the first place. pgtable_cache_init() might
not be the best place if it's generally used. Only requirement is
that it needs to be early.
--
Martin K. Petersen Silicon Graphics, Inc.
mkp@sgi.com http://www.sgi.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 18:47 [RFC] Convert pgtable cache to slab Martin K. Petersen
2004-10-13 18:57 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-13 18:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-13 19:07 ` Luck, Tony
2004-10-13 19:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-13 19:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2004-10-13 19:32 ` Luck, Tony
2004-10-13 19:42 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2004-10-13 19:49 ` Robin Holt
2004-10-13 19:50 ` Robin Holt
2004-10-13 20:23 ` Luck, Tony
2004-10-13 20:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2004-10-13 20:37 ` Martin K. Petersen
2004-10-14 7:44 ` David Mosberger
2004-10-14 10:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-14 11:00 ` David Mosberger
2004-10-14 11:07 ` Robin Holt
2004-10-14 11:10 ` David Mosberger
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