Re: allowed pages in the block later, was Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH] ext3: avoid sending down non-refcounted pages

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Dec 08 2005 - 08:58:03 EST


Hi Christoph,

On 12/8/05, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One way to work around that would be to detect kmalloced pages and use
> a slowpath for that. The major issues with that is that we don't have a
> reliable way to detect if a given struct page comes from the slab allocator
> or not.

Why doesn't PageSlab work for you?

Pekka
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