On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:59:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - we absolutely do _not_ want to make "struct page" bigger. We can't
> afford to just throw away another 8 bytes per page on adding a new list
> structure, I feel. Even if this would be the simplest solution.
BTW..
The current 2.4 struct page could be already shortened a lot, saving a lot
of cache.
(first number for 32bit, second for 64bit)
- Do not compile virtual in when the kernel does not support highmem
(saves 4/8 bytes)
- Instead of having a zone pointer mask use a 8 or 16 byte index into a
zone table. On a modern CPU it is much cheaper to do the and/shifts than
to do even a single cache miss during page aging. On a lot of systems
that zone index could be hardcoded to 0 anyways, giving better code.
- Instead of using 4/8 bytes for the age use only 16bit (FreeBSD which
has the same swapping algorithm even only uses 8bit)
- Remove the waitqueue debugging (obvious @)
- flags can be __u32 on 64bit hosts, sharing 64bit with something that
is tolerant to async updates (e.g. the zone table index or the index)
- index could be probably u32 instead of unsigned long, saving 4 bytes
on i386
Would you consider patches for any of these points?
-Andi
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