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On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:10:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Few pages use ->private for much.  Hash for it.  4(ish) bytes
>   saved.

Do you know an approximate reasonable constant of proportionality
for how many pages have ->private attached?


On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:10:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Remove the rmap chain (I just broke ptep_to_address() anyway).  4 bytes
>   saved.  struct page is now 20 bytes.

How did ptep_to_address() break? I browsed over your latest changes and
missed the bit where that fell apart. I'll at least take a stab at fixing
it up until the other bits materialize.



Cheers,
Bill
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