Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763556AbXERSPr (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 14:15:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763828AbXERSPP (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 14:15:15 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:58972 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761513AbXERSPM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 14:15:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:15:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Nick Piggin cc: David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?! In-Reply-To: <20070518051238.GA7696@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20070518040854.GA15654@wotan.suse.de> <20070517.214740.51856086.davem@davemloft.net> <20070518051238.GA7696@wotan.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: 562 Lines: 13 On Fri, 18 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > The page->virtual thing is just a bonus (although have you seen what > sort of hoops SPARSEMEM has to go through to find page_address?! It > will definitely be a win on those architectures). That is on the way out. See the discussion on virtual memmap support in sparseme. - 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/