From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933028AbXGWVwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:52:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756913AbXGWVwG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:52:06 -0400 Received: from nigel.suspend2.net ([203.171.70.205]:52423 "EHLO nigel.suspend2.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbXGWVwF (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:52:05 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: nigel@suspend2.net To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags. Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:52:04 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: LKML References: <200707232305.12364.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> <1185200995.2714.58.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1185200995.2714.58.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4162455.S2hmh5UmmA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707240752.04726.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart4162455.S2hmh5UmmA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. > >=20 > > As we all know, pageflags have been a scarce resource for a while now.= =20 These=20 > > patches seek to help address that issue by adding support for a new typ= e=20 > > of 'dynamically allocated' pageflag. >=20 >=20 > 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 fla= gs=20 where the performance hit doesn't matter [so much]. Regards, Nigel =2D-=20 See http://www.tuxonice.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info. --nextPart4162455.S2hmh5UmmA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGpSMEN0y+n1M3mo0RAkxmAKDS96NbrcVcLmvng+Zl5NhwMHbArwCgkuEM hDBeDtLZpfUGMNapXYCcrdg= =AuAd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4162455.S2hmh5UmmA--