From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:03:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30282.1101319407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A49940.6030104@snapgear.com>
Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>:
> The refcounting has been annoying me for a while, it just feels
> wrong. It has been done that way for a very long time (since 2.4.0
> IIRC). I am sure there was more to it back in the 2.4 but I don't
> think we need to do it like this any more.
It was like that in 2.4 also - where I first developed this arch and these mm
changes. The refcount-on-free bug is there also. I don't know why no one else
has hit it.
> I don't have any problem with what David has done so far though
> I need to test it more extensively first.
That'd be great! :-)
I need to look at dumping my 2.4 arch & changes into the 2.4-uc kernels too.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-22 13:27 [PATCH] Compound page overhaul David Howells
2004-11-22 14:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-22 16:07 ` David Howells
2004-11-22 16:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-22 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-23 9:18 ` David Howells
2004-11-23 16:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-23 16:48 ` David Howells
2004-11-23 16:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-23 17:48 ` David Howells
2004-11-23 17:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-23 17:24 ` David Howells
2004-11-23 17:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-23 17:51 ` David Howells
2004-11-24 14:22 ` Greg Ungerer
2004-11-24 18:03 ` David Howells [this message]
2004-11-25 3:37 ` Greg Ungerer
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