Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:48:44 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:38 -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> writes: > > Dave> I was talking with Nigel Cunningham about doing something a > Dave> little different from the classic page flag bits when the number > Dave> of users is restricted and performance isn't ultra-critical. > Dave> Would something like this work for you, instead of using a real > Dave> page->flags bit for PG_cached? > > Just took a quick look at this and it looks a bit heavy for our > use. We are only looking at a small number of pages. However I could > imagine future cases where performance may be more critical.
If it's a quite small number (or range) of pages, perhaps a short list_head list would suffice. It would sure beat consuming a page flag.
-- Dave
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