Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:11:36 +0200 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > Does it really really really need to consume one of our few remaining page > flags? We'll be in a mess when we run out.
No we're not. Just the (imho always misguided) "encode zone/node number into flags" optimization has to be removed again or made 64bit only. Then there will be plenty of flags again.
Really I see no real reason this can't be done with a small hash table again like x86-64 originally did.
-Andi
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