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Message-Id: <20070522093050.0320d092.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:30:50 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc: ak@...e.de, dada1@...mosbay.com, wli@...omorphy.com,
npiggin@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Besides with the scarcity of pageflags it might make sense to do "64 bit only"
> > flags at some point.
>
> There is no scarcity of page flags. There is
>
> 1. Hoarding by Andrew
>
> 2. Waste by Sparsemem (section flags no longer necessary with
> virtual memmap)
For i386(32bit arch), there is not enough space for vmemmap.
For 64bit arch, page flags are not exhausted yet.
-Kame
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