From: Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [RFC] buddy allocator without bitmap(2) [0/3]
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:53:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41350F60.40608@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040831162408.3718c83e.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>>Because I had to record some information about shape of mem_map, I used PG_xxx bit.
>>1 bit is maybe minimum consumption.
>
>
> The point is that we're running out of bits in page.flags.
>
yes.
> You should be able to reuse an existing bit for this application. PG_lock would suit.
Hmm... PG_buddyend pages in the top of mem_map can be allocated and used as normal pages
,which can be used for Disk I/O.
If I make them as victims to buddy allocator and don't allow to use them,
I can reuse an existing bit.
I'll consider more.
--Kame
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 10:36 [RFC] buddy allocator without bitmap(2) [0/3] Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA
2004-08-31 16:26 ` Dave Hansen
2004-08-31 22:44 ` [Lhms-devel] " Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA
2004-08-31 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-31 23:53 ` Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA [this message]
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