On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > i386: Convert to quicklists > Implement the i386 management of pgd and pmds using quicklists. I approve, though it would be nice if ptes had an interface operating on struct page * to use. On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The i386 management of page table pages currently uses page sized slabs. > The page state is therefore mainly determined by the slab code. However, > i386 also uses its own fields in the page struct to mark special pages > and to build a list of pgds using the ->private and ->index field (yuck!). > This has been finely tuned to work right with SLAB but SLUB needs more > control over the page struct. Currently the only way for SLUB to support > these slabs is through special casing PAGE_SIZE slabs. > If we use quicklists instead then we can avoid the mess, and also the > overhead of manipulating page sized objects through slab. Hey! I did quite well given the constraints under which I was operating. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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