Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:45:31 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: page-flags behavior on compound pages: a worry |
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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.
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