Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261620AbVAXVdQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:33:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261623AbVAXVbs (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:31:48 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-197-226-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.197.226.105]:52377 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261620AbVAXU1U (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:27:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:23:50 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@osdl.org, hugh@veritas.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Extend clear_page by an order parameter Message-Id: <20050124122350.1142ee81.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20050108135636.6796419a.davem@davemloft.net> <20050122234517.376ef3f8.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 571 Lines: 15 On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:37:15 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > Then it may also be better to pass the page struct to clear_pages > instead of a memory address. What is more generally available at the call sites at this time? Consider both HIGHMEM and non-HIGHMEM setups in your estimation please :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/