| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <20070311032213.GJ2986@holomorphy.com> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:22:13 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, holt@....com, mpm@...enic.com Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 2/6] i386: quicklist support On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > i386: Convert to quicklists > Implement the i386 management of pgd and pmds using quicklists. I approve, though it would be nice if ptes had an interface operating on struct page * to use. On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The i386 management of page table pages currently uses page sized slabs. > The page state is therefore mainly determined by the slab code. However, > i386 also uses its own fields in the page struct to mark special pages > and to build a list of pgds using the ->private and ->index field (yuck!). > This has been finely tuned to work right with SLAB but SLUB needs more > control over the page struct. Currently the only way for SLUB to support > these slabs is through special casing PAGE_SIZE slabs. > If we use quicklists instead then we can avoid the mess, and also the > overhead of manipulating page sized objects through slab. Hey! I did quite well given the constraints under which I was operating. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists