linux-kernel - Re: [patch] cache pipe buf page address for non-highmem arch

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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:01:49 -0700
From:	"Ken Chen" <kenchen@...gle.com>
To:	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Ken Chen" <kenchen@...gle.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] cache pipe buf page address for non-highmem arch

On 3/23/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> I think you're fixing the symptom here and not the cause.  If calculating
> the virtual address of a page is so expensive on your setup it should
> define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL and we should always cache the virtual address
> in struct page.  There's a lot more code, epecially in filesystems that's
> rather upset about a slow page_address.

Adding WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL would be too costly I think as it will expand
the sizeof struct page.  I would rather go incremental fix on these
issues and not blindly increase page struct size.
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