Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750803AbWIUAX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:23:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750818AbWIUAX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:23:59 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:37325 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803AbWIUAX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:23:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:23:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andi Kleen cc: rohitseth@google.com, CKRM-Tech , devel@openvz.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: [patch02/05]: Containers(V2)- Generic Linux kernel changes In-Reply-To: <200609202014.48815.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <1158718722.29000.50.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <1158770670.8574.26.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> <200609202014.48815.ak@suse.de> 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: 917 Lines: 22 On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > There are lots of different cases. At least for anonymous memory > ->mapping should be free. Perhaps that could be used for anonymous > memory and a separate data structure for the important others. mapping is used for swap and to point to the anon vma. > slab should have at least one field free too, although it might be a different > one (iirc Christoph's rewrite uses more than the current slab, but it would > surprise me if he needed all) slab currently has lots of fields free but my rewrite uses all of them. And AFAICT this patchset does not track slab pages. Hmm.... Build a radix tree with pointers to the pages? - 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/