From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751121AbWAYLTn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:19:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751122AbWAYLTn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:19:43 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.195]:44400 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751121AbWAYLTm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:19:42 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=l2AN95bLgHTuoxzSAlFCTxaaanlurDm3xHguzrfzXFKzGQP2avGWQ+XcPqqIc47c+mn+hhv8k2s3M0oCv34XLkveu3k8IAq1e6WFtQWN21OB1UkZdvxLI79FjFpOlRx1snqGp4lRP8gQY7vXkwSpbdTqpOjCldoBsi0Z8tTUXuA= Message-ID: <84144f020601250319o71e34376hcd7a964f2eb21961@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:19:36 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [RFC] non-refcounted pages, application to slab? Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List In-Reply-To: <20060125110031.GC30421@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060125093909.GE32653@wotan.suse.de> <84144f020601250230s2d5da5d9jf11f754f184d495b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125110031.GC30421@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:30:03PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > we want to keep the reference counting for slab pages so that we can > > use kmalloc'd memory in the block layer. On 1/25/06, Nick Piggin wrote: > Does that happen now? Where is it needed (nbd or something I guess?) See the following thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel/2981. I think we're using them in quite a few places. Pekka