Re: [RFC] non-refcounted pages, application to slab?

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 06:18:02 EST


On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:30:03PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > we want to keep the reference counting for slab pages so that we can
> > use kmalloc'd memory in the block layer.

On 1/25/06, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does that happen now? Where is it needed (nbd or something I guess?)

See the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel/2981. I
think we're using them in quite a few places.

Pekka
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