Christoph Lameter wrote:
Add a flag SlabReclaimable() that is set on slabs with a method
that allows defrag/reclaim. Clear the flag if a reclaim action is not
successful in reducing the number of objects in a slab. The reclaim
flag is set again if all objects have been allocated from it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 mm/slub.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c    2007-08-28 20:10:37.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2007-08-28 20:10:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@
 #define SLABDEBUG 0
 #endif
+#define SLABRECLAIMABLE (1 << PG_dirty)
+
 static inline int SlabFrozen(struct page *page)
 {
        return page->flags & FROZEN;
@@ -137,6 +139,21 @@ static inline void ClearSlabDebug(struct
        page->flags &= ~SLABDEBUG;
 }
+static inline int SlabReclaimable(struct page *page)
+{
+       return page->flags & SLABRECLAIMABLE;
+}
+
+static inline void SetSlabReclaimable(struct page *page)
+{
+       page->flags |= SLABRECLAIMABLE;
+}
+
+static inline void ClearSlabReclaimable(struct page *page)
+{
+       page->flags &= ~SLABRECLAIMABLE;
+}

Why is it safe to not use the normal page flag bit operators
for these page flags operations?

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