Re: [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:31 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > 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 :-(.

Do you think the idea was ugly, or just the implementation?  Is there
something that you'd rather see?

-- Dave

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