From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
arjan@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:29:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080914132952.GC554@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48CBF25B.5030107@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> > From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> > Subject: [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct
> >
> > Track the memtype for RAM pages in page struct instead of using the memtype
> > list. This avoids the explosion in the number of entries in memtype list
> > (of the order of 20,000 with AGP) and makes the PAT tracking simpler. We are
> > using PG_arch_1 bit in page->flags.
> >
>
> Please define PG_arch_1 a proper name so that its easy to tell its
> being used just by looking at page-flags.h.
it should be defined in include/asm-x86/page.h though, not in
page-flags.h - other architectures are using this flag for other
purposes.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-14 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-13 0:00 [patch 0/2] PAT fix/optimization Venkatesh Pallipadi
2008-09-13 0:00 ` [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct Venkatesh Pallipadi
2008-09-13 17:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-14 13:29 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-14 14:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-14 14:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-23 21:46 ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-09-23 21:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-24 15:53 ` [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct - v3 Venki Pallipadi
2008-09-27 17:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 7:28 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-30 11:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 21:14 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-10-01 9:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02 2:27 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-13 17:24 ` [patch 1/2] x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct Frans Pop
2008-09-14 14:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-23 21:48 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-09-13 0:00 ` [patch 2/2] x86: Handle error returns in set_memory_* Venkatesh Pallipadi
2008-09-14 13:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 14:35 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-14 14:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 8:36 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-30 21:29 ` Suresh Siddha
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