Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags.

Hi.

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 00:29:55 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 23:05 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > As we all know, pageflags have been a scarce resource for a while now. 
These 
> > patches seek to help address that issue by adding support for a new type 
> > of 'dynamically allocated' pageflag.
> 
> 
> but... does this really solve it? I mean.. you can still run out... so
> then what?

Well, the intention is that you can use this implementation instead for flags 
where the performance hit doesn't matter [so much].

Regards,

Nigel
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