On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 15:29 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > : x86-64 will need updating to also take advantage of this.
> > It may be able to just copy the i386 includes as-is, I've
> > not looked closely at the PAT related changes on x86-64 yet. Andi?
> >
> > : The list manipulation macros in mm/cachemap.c are a little fugly.
> >
> > Anything else ?
>
> For memory (pfn_valid == 1) it would be more memory efficient to use a few bits
> in struct page->flags
I think page->flags use should be limited to things that are relatively
performance-sensitive and arch-independent, mostly because we're running
out of them on 32-bit platforms, fast.
Each incremental use of page flags doesn't have any immediate storage
cost, but it's a serious pain when we run out, and having to bloat it to
a 64-bit value on 32-bit platforms wouldn't be very memory efficient,
either. :)
> In general because there are lots of uses of "range lists" it would be better
> to put it as a library into lib.
Either that, or something like "Dynamically allocated pageflags" would
be nice.
http://lwn.net/Articles/124332/
-- Dave
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