Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH 5/7] UBC: kernel memory accounting (core)

[Kirill Korotaev]

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-08-18 am 12:32 -0700, ysgrifennodd Dave Hansen:
>
> > > It ought to be cheap. Given each set of page structs is an array its a
> > > simple subtract and divide (or with care and people try to pack them
> > > nicely for cache lines - shift) to get to the parallel accounting array.
> >
> > I wish page structs were just a simple array. ;)
>
>
> Note I very carefully said "each set of"
>
>
> > It will just be a bit more code, but we'll need this for the two other
> > memory models: sparsemem and discontigmem.  For discontig, we'll just
> > need pointers in the pg_data_ts and, for sparsemem, we'll likely need
> > another pointer in the 'struct mem_section'.
>
>
> Actually I don't believe this is true in either case. Change the code
> which allocates the page arrays to allocate (+ sizeof(void *) *
> pages_in_array on the end of each array when using UBC. The rest then
> seems to come out naturally.
I only doubt what gain we will have in this situation.
boot-time selectable vs. CONFIG-selectable?

Kirill

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