On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > All of that said, I am not even sure we have a bit left in the page
> > > > flags on smaller architectures :/.
> > >
> > > How about
> > >
> > > #define PG_checked 8 /* kill me in 2.5.<early>. */
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > At least PG_uncached isn't used on many architectures too, so could
> > > be reused. I don't know why those that use it don't check VMAs instead.
> > >
> >
> >
> > PG_unchecked appears to be totally unused. It's only users are the macros
> > that manipulate the bit and mm/page_alloc.c . It appears it has been a
> > long time since it was used to it is a canditate for reuse.
> >
> Considering memory hotplug, I don't want to resize bitmaps at hot-add/remove.
> no bitmap is welcome :)
>
Version has now been posted that has no usemap with the subject "Light
fragmentation avoidance without usemap". Details on implementation and
benchmarks are included.
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Java Applications Developer
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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