Re: Struct page proposal

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 27 2021 - 14:35:18 EST


On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:54 AM Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That list_head is the problematic one. Why do we need to be able to take a page
> from the middle of a freelist?

At least for the merging with the buddy page case.

Linus