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SubjectRe: page-flags behavior on compound pages: a worry
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 03:45:31PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> > > I know a patchset which solves this! ;)
> >
> > Oh, and I know a patchset which avoids these problems completely,
> > by not using compound pages at all ;)
>
> Another dumb idea: Stop the insanity of splitting pages on the fly?
> Splitting pages should work like page migration: Lock everything down and
> ensure no one is using the page and then do it. That way the compound pages
> and its metadata are as stable as a regular page.

That's what I do in refcounting patchset.

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Kirill A. Shutemov


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