Re: [RFC 13/26] SLUB: Add SlabReclaimable() to avoid repeated reclaimattempts

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 14:01:13 EST

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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Why is it safe to not use the normal page flag bit operators
> for these page flags operations?

Because SLUB always modifies page flags under PageLock.

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