Re: increasing page size

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:05:42 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 00:03:04 +0200 (CEST), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:

> - lazy reclamation in the extreme (involves off-page
> management instead of the on-page linked lists we have
> now)

Since the struct page was introduced several years ago, we store the
free page links in the page map, not inside the page itself.

--Stephen

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