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SubjectRe: [QUICKLIST 0/4] Arch independent quicklists V2
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:30:10AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > However we still have to visit those to-be-unmapped parts of the page
> > table,
> > to find the pages and free them. So we still at least need to bring it
> > into
> > cache for the read... at which point, the store probably isn't a big
> > burden.
>
> Why not try to find a place to stash a linklist pointer and link them
> all together? Saves the pulldown pagetable walk altogether.

Because we'd need one link per mm that a page is mapped in?

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