Re: [13/14] vcompound: Use vcompound for swap_map

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I liked your idea of fixing compound pages to not rely on order
> better. Ok it is likely more work to implement @)

Right. It just requires a page allocator rewrite. Which is overdue 
anyways given the fastpath issues. Volunteers?

> Also if anything preserving memory should be default, but maybe
> skippable a with __GFP_GO_FAST flag.

Well. Guess we need a definition of preserving memory. All allocations 
typically have some kind of overhead.


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