Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:10:55 -0700


On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:00:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> You're right, I will need to write a proper RFC one way or the other. I
> was thinking of using slabs because that way there wouldn't be need to
> scan all of mem_map, just a small number of slabs. I have no basis for
> this other than hand waving gestures though.

Mel,

This sounds much like something I was reading from Larry McVoy using page
objects (like one level higher in magnatude than pages).

I don't remember the URL, but there was something pretty extensive from
Larry already explaining the concept.
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