From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] SLQB v2
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:28:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805011825420.13697@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502012321.GE30768@wotan.suse.de>
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> But overloading struct page values happens in other places too. Putting
> everything into struct page is not scalable. We could also make kmalloc
Well lets at least attempt to catch the biggest users. Also makes code
clearer if you f.e. use page->first_page instead of page->private for
compound pages.
kmalloc is intended to return an arbitrary type. struct page has a defined
format that needs to be respected.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 19:31 [patch] SLQB v2 Nick Piggin
2008-04-15 3:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2008-05-01 1:54 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-01 19:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-02 0:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-02 1:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-02 1:23 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-02 1:28 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-05-02 1:48 ` Nick Piggin
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