Messages in this thread | | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Dynamically allocated pageflags. | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:52:04 +1000 |
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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 -- See http://www.tuxonice.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |