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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 2.5] Introduce 64-bit versions of PAGE_{CACHE_,}{MASK,ALIGN}
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:56:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020729005649.GT25038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D448808.CF8D18BA@zip.com.au>

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:10:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Few pages use ->private for much.  Hash for it.  4(ish) bytes
>   saved.

Do you know an approximate reasonable constant of proportionality
for how many pages have ->private attached?


On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:10:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Remove the rmap chain (I just broke ptep_to_address() anyway).  4 bytes
>   saved.  struct page is now 20 bytes.

How did ptep_to_address() break? I browsed over your latest changes and
missed the bit where that fell apart. I'll at least take a stab at fixing
it up until the other bits materialize.



Cheers,
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-29  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-27 13:41 [BK PATCH 2.5] Introduce 64-bit versions of PAGE_{CACHE_,}{MASK,ALIGN} Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-27 17:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-28 17:53   ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-28 18:54     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-28 20:12       ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-28 23:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-29  0:10         ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29  0:43           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-29  0:56             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-29  1:04               ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-29  1:09               ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-29  2:14                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29  2:11                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-29  2:18                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-29  0:49           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-29  2:05             ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29  2:09               ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-29 20:52               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-29 21:01                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29 21:31                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-29 21:46                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29 22:18                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-29  0:56           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-29  1:36             ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29  1:37               ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-29  9:27           ` Russell King
2002-07-29 18:32             ` Andrew Morton
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2002-07-30 13:44           ` Andi Kleen
2002-07-30 14:06             ` Rik van Riel

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