On Wednesday 25 June 2003 02:47, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Per struct address_space? This is an unnecessary limitation.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:07:18AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> It's a sensible limitation, it keeps the radix tree lookup simple.
It severely limits its usefulness. Dropping in a more flexible data
structure should be fine.
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 02:47, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This gives me the same data structure proliferation chills as bh's.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:07:18AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> It's not nearly as bad. There is no distinction between subpage and base
> struct page for almost all page operations, e.g., locking, IO, data access.
But those are code sanitation issues. You need to make sure this
doesn't explode on PAE.
-- wli
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