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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: apw@shadowen.org
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [rfc 00/10] [Patch] Page flags: Cleanup, reorg and introduce 5 new flags
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:04:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304000452.514878384@sgi.com> (raw)

A set of patches that attempts to improve page flag handling. First of all a
method is introduced to generate the page flag functions using macros. Then
the number of page flags used by sparsemem is reduced. All page flag
operations will no longer be macros. All flags will use inline function.

Then we add a way to export enum constants to the preprocessor which allows
us to get rid of __ZONE_COUNT and use the NR_PAGEFLAGS for the dynamic
calculation of actually available page flags for fields.

Optimization of sparsemem vmemmap allows us to avoid the use of page flags
for section ids. The newly available flags are taken for various ongoing
VM projects.

RFC->V1
- Fix various things as suggested by Mel and Kame-san.
- Avoid the #idef CONFIG_PAGEFLAG_EXTENDED. The new page flags
  are always available.

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04  0:04 Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 01/10] Pageflags: Use an enum for the flags Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 02/10] Pageflags: Introduce macros to generate page flag functions Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 03/10] Pageflags: Convert to the use of new macros Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 04/10] Pageflags: Use proper page flag functions in Xen Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 05/10] Pageflags: Eliminate PG_xxx aliases Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 06/10] Sparsemem: Vmemmap does not need section bits Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:04 ` [rfc 07/10] Kbuild: Create a way to create preprocessor constants from C expressions Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:05 ` [rfc 08/10] Pageflags: Get rid of FLAGS_RESERVED Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:05 ` [rfc 09/10] Get rid of __ZONE_COUNT Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  0:05 ` [rfc 10/10] Pageflags: Land grab Christoph Lameter
2008-03-04  1:27   ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04  5:38     ` Christoph Lameter

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