Re: [PATCH] reduce struct_page size

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > o page->zone is shrunk from a pointer to an index into a small
> >   array of zones ... this means we have space for 3 more chars
> >   in the struct page to other stuff (say, page->age)
>
> Why not put "page->zone" into the page flags instead?

Done.  I'll resubmit the patch with this change once I've
tested the thing, in an hour or two.

regards,

Rik
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