Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]Fix: Init page count for all pages during higher order allocs | Date | Thu, 2 May 2002 23:13:34 +0200 |
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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?
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