Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:59:07 +0200 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: increasing page size |
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On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:05:42PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:03:04 +0200 (CEST), Rik van Riel > <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said: > > > - lazy reclamation in the extreme (involves off-page > > management instead of the on-page linked lists we have > > now) > > Since the struct page was introduced several years ago, we store the > free page links in the page map, not inside the page itself.
I'd prefer if this stays so. Otherwise on architectures with virtual caches the cache would have to be flushed after unmapping mapped pages in order to avoid virtual aliases. Not cheap at all.
Ralf
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