On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:35:04PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> > Ignoring the free page allocator which abuses pg->offset, is there any
> > reason we cannot fold pg->flags into pg->offset? The lower PAGE_SHIFT bits
> > of pg->offset are not used.
>
> is this about making vm_page smaller? if so, and it works, i guess that
> seems fine, but how many bits do you want to use? ie, what is the
> smallest PAGE_SIZE we will support?
>
> if not that, why?
And is the memory saved enough to be significant compared to the
number of masking operations needed to get pg->offset.
David
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