From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: de-luxe zone allocator, design 2
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:35:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807302335.AAA07710@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980729195814.12136G-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:00:14 +0200 (CEST), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:
> Isn't packing locality _very_ important on machines where you
> have no memory to spare? In that case 16k would probably be
> better; PLUS 16k will allow for real DMA buffers and stuff.
Not for short-lived packets, where you don't want to reserve a whole 16k
or more just for a single instance of an NFS packet.
--Stephen
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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
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 [this message]
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