From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: bruno_vidal@hp.com
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
"parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org"
<parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] struct page: page in use or not ?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:13:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320121356.GZ14520@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E79A49C.81C188AA@hp.com>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:23:08PM +0100, bruno_vidal@hp.com wrote:
> Hi
> What do you mean by "swsusp" patche ? What it do....
> Actually I'm looking at the kmalloc() function in order to
> understand how it determine the bucket, and so to know
> which pages I need to dump before I can use the page structure.
> Do you think it is a good starting point, or using page
> struture is really a bad option ?
kmalloc (ie slab) is the wrong allocator to be looking at. you want
get_free_pages.
--
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 16:50 [parisc-linux] struct page: page in use or not ? bruno_vidal
2003-03-19 17:03 ` Randolph Chung
2003-03-19 17:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-03-20 11:23 ` bruno_vidal
2003-03-20 12:13 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-03-20 15:39 ` Michael Wood
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