Re: [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I think there are a a few ways that bits can be reclaimed if we
> > start digging. swsusp uses 2 which seems excessive though may be
> > fully justified. 
> 
> They (swsusp) actually don't need the bits at all until suspend-time, at
> all.  Somebody coded up a "dynamic page flags" patch that let them kill
> the page->flags use, but it didn't really go anywhere.  Might be nice if
> someone dug it up.  I probably have a copy somewhere.

Unfortunately that patch was rather ugly :-(.
								Pavel
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