Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:30:10 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [QUICKLIST 0/4] Arch independent quicklists V2 |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > However we still have to visit those to-be-unmapped parts of the page > table, > to find the pages and free them. So we still at least need to bring it > into > cache for the read... at which point, the store probably isn't a big > burden.
Why not try to find a place to stash a linklist pointer and link them all together? Saves the pulldown pagetable walk altogether.
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