I was talking with Nigel Cunningham about doing something a little different from the classic page flag bits when the number of users is restricted and performance isn't ultra-critical. Would something like this work for you, instead of using a real page->flags bit for PG_cached?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110878103926956&w=2 BTW, they're planning on using two of those dynamic flags for software suspend, and I'll probably use at least another two in the memory hotplug code. -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/