Re: [RFC:PATCH 00/07] VM File Tails

Jörn Engel
2007-08-30T10:11:10Z

On Wed, 29 August 2007 21:15:11 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>
> Once the data is packed into the tail, the page is freed. Later if the
> page is needed, a new page is allocated and the tail is unpacked into
> it. Then the tail is freed (via kfree).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Good. That part had evaded me.

JA?rn

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