Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:37:26 +1000 | From | Greg Ungerer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul |
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Hi David,
David Howells wrote: > Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>: > >>The refcounting has been annoying me for a while, it just feels >>wrong. It has been done that way for a very long time (since 2.4.0 >>IIRC). I am sure there was more to it back in the 2.4 but I don't >>think we need to do it like this any more. > > > It was like that in 2.4 also - where I first developed this arch and these mm > changes. The refcount-on-free bug is there also. I don't know why no one else > has hit it. > > >>I don't have any problem with what David has done so far though >>I need to test it more extensively first. > > > That'd be great! :-) > > I need to look at dumping my 2.4 arch & changes into the 2.4-uc kernels too.
That would be good :-)
Regards Greg
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