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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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      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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