From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:14:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:14:53 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-046.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.46]:7586 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:14:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Hugh Dickins , Suparna Bhattacharya Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix: Init page count for all pages during higher order allocs Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 23:13:34 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@brutus.conectiva.com.br, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 02 May 2002 15:08, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > As someone else noted in this thread, the kernel tries to keep > pages in use anyway, so omitting free pages won't buy you a great > deal on its own. And I think it's to omit free pages that you want > to distinguish the count 0 continuations from the count 0 frees? Then why not count=-1 for the continuation pages? -- Daniel