On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:28:03 -0500 Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > Yes, and there will be immediate calmour to add more goodies to the > > other seven bits. PageDirty, referenced state, etc. We should think > > about this now, at the design stage rather than grafting things on > > later. > > I'm interested in your "etc.". PG_error, PG_active, PG_writeback, > page huge? Gawd knows. How many crazy people are there out there? If we adopt my use-runlength-encoding suggestion then things get easier. We add an extra arg to the syscall which selects which particular per-page boolean we're looking for and can gather up to 4 billion different PageFoo()s. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
