Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> The page->virtual thing is just a bonus (although have you seen what
> sort of hoops SPARSEMEM has to go through to find page_address?! It
> will definitely be a win on those architectures).

That is on the way out. See the discussion on virtual memmap support in 
sparseme.
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