From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags.
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:52:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707240752.04726.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185200995.2714.58.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
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Hi.
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 00:29:55 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 23:05 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > As we all know, pageflags have been a scarce resource for a while now.
These
> > patches seek to help address that issue by adding support for a new type
> > of 'dynamically allocated' pageflag.
>
>
> but... does this really solve it? I mean.. you can still run out... so
> then what?
Well, the intention is that you can use this implementation instead for flags
where the performance hit doesn't matter [so much].
Regards,
Nigel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-23 13:05 [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-23 13:15 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags - PageSwapCache conversion Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-23 13:16 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags - PageSlab conversion Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-23 13:17 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags - PageMappedToDisk conversion Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-23 13:17 ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags - PageBuddy conversion Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-23 13:25 ` [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-23 14:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-23 21:52 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2007-07-23 22:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-23 22:27 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-07-24 9:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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