Re: [patch] SLQB v2

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 21:29:23 EST


On Fri, 2 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> But overloading struct page values happens in other places too. Putting
> everything into struct page is not scalable. We could also make kmalloc

Well lets at least attempt to catch the biggest users. Also makes code
clearer if you f.e. use page->first_page instead of page->private for
compound pages.

kmalloc is intended to return an arbitrary type. struct page has a defined
format that needs to be respected.

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