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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:41:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3725.1100634107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041116112022.67be2377.akpm@osdl.org>


> Andrea wants to do that, purely from a code coverage point of view.  But it
> does add a little extra overhead.

It definitely does.

> For what reason do you propose this?

You and Christoph, amongst others, seemed dead in favour of it. Other than
that, I have no real need for it, except that it makes kobjsize() simpler.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-16 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-16 18:48 [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory David Howells
2004-11-16 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-16 19:41   ` David Howells [this message]
2004-11-17  1:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-17  2:28   ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-17  3:13     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:22       ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:37         ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:42           ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-17  3:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-17 12:03       ` David Howells
2004-11-17 11:47     ` David Howells
2004-11-17 11:43   ` David Howells

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