Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261624AbVAXVdS (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:33:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261595AbVAXVbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:31:34 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:40083 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261633AbVAXUeF (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:34:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:33:47 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: "David S. Miller" 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 In-Reply-To: <20050124122350.1142ee81.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20050108135636.6796419a.davem@davemloft.net> <20050122234517.376ef3f8.akpm@osdl.org> <20050124122350.1142ee81.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 22 On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > 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 :-) The only call site is prep_zero_page which has a GFP flag, the order and the pointer to struct page. The patch makes the huge page code call prep_zero_page and scrubd will also call prep_zero_page. - 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/