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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
	George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, tim@xen.org, jbeulich@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:20:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0460d37-3523-a49c-02ca-a931a500830a@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4538153c-99b2-7557-4db1-3427ccd5af1f@arm.com>


>>
>> Switching to bitfields was, btw, suggested by Jan at some point so if
>> the two of you agree on how to proceed I can go either way (but by
>> preference is to keep it as a single-bit bitfield).
>
> If you use a single-bit bitfield of bool (i.e bool need_flush : 1) you
> would address both Jan's comment and mine.

Haven't considered this. I thought you meant a fully-sized bool. I'll do
this, thanks.

-boris


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-07 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-04 17:05 [PATCH v6 0/8] Memory scrubbing from idle loop Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] mm: Place unscrubbed pages at the end of pagelist Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-06 17:41   ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-07 14:12     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07 14:37       ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-07 14:55         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07 15:28           ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-07 10:45   ` Julien Grall
2017-08-07 14:46     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07 15:23       ` Julien Grall
2017-08-07 16:57         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07 17:01           ` Julien Grall
2017-08-07 17:20             ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] mm: Extract allocation loop from alloc_heap_pages() Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-06 17:42   ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] mm: Scrub pages in alloc_heap_pages() if needed Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] mm: Scrub memory from idle loop Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07  7:29   ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-07 14:05   ` Dario Faggioli
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] spinlock: Introduce spin_lock_cb() Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07  7:32   ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] mm: Keep heap accessible to others while scrubbing Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-07  7:50   ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] mm: Print number of unscrubbed pages in 'H' debug handler Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] mm: Make sure pages are scrubbed Boris Ostrovsky

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