Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Suspend 2 merge: 43/51: Utility functions. | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:36:15 +1100 |
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Hi.
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 03:11, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:04, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:46, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > How many bits do you need? Two? I'd rather use thow two bits than have > > > yet another abstraction. Also note that it is doing big order > > > allocation. > > > > Three if checksumming is enabled IIRC. I'll happily use normal page > > flags, but we only need them when suspending, and I understood they were > > rarer than hen's teeth :> > > > > MM guys copied so they can tell me I'm wrong :> > > Please remember that, in almost all cases, any use of page->flags can be > replaced by a simple list. Is a page marked foo? Well, just traverse > this data structure and see if the page is in there. It might be a > stinking slow check, but it will *work*. > > I think we're up to using 1 bit in the memory hotplug code, but we don't > even need that if some operations can be implemented more slowly.
Yes. That's the way suspending did things initially like checking which pages were free. The bitmap was added to turn O(n^2) into O(n). Since the calculations can potentially be done a few times (as memory is freed so we can suspend), it was a big gain to use a bitmap.
Regards,
Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Pastoral Worker Christian Reformed Church of Tuggeranong PO Box 1004, Tuggeranong, ACT 2901
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