Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:03:05 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: 230-objrmap fixes for 2.6.3-mjb2 |
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:41:51AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:58:44AM -0600, Dave McCracken wrote: > > > It'd mean the page struct would have to have a count of the number of > > > mlock()ed regions it belongs to, and we'd have to update all the pages each > > > time we call it. > > > > That would add another atomic_t to struct pages.. > > No need for that. If a page is mlocked, it shouldn't be on any > of the LRU lists (since it can't be swapped out yadda yadda). > > That means the locked count can share space in the struct page > with the list head used for the lru.
And we can drop the VM_RESERVED flag, which is currently used in a bunch of places where it's not on lists already.
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