linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705181114470.11881@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 11:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> The page->virtual thing is just a bonus (although have you seen what
> sort of hoops SPARSEMEM has to go through to find page_address?! It
> will definitely be a win on those architectures).

That is on the way out. See the discussion on virtual memmap support in 
sparseme.
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