From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: de-luxe zone allocator, design 2
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:12:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807271112.MAA00732@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980724225908.30437A-200000@mirkwood.dummy.home>
Hi,
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:03:18 +0200 (CEST), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:
> With the reports of Linux booting in 3 MB it's probably
> time for some low-mem adjustments, but in general this
> scheme should be somewhat better designed overall.
In 3MB, zoning in 128k chunks is crazy --- you want 8k chunks, max!
The extra cost incurred by less efficient packing will also cripple
you on 3MB with zones. The problem definition is different on such
small machines.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-27 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-24 21:03 Rik van Riel
1998-07-27 11:12 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1998-07-28 16:15 ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-29 11:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-29 18:00 ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-30 23:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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