From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04780 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 06:58:17 -0400 Received: from [212.238.108.69] (helo=mirkwood.dummy.home) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 10ezN3-0004C4-00 for linux-mm@kvack.org; Wed, 5 May 1999 10:57:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by mirkwood.dummy.home (8.9.0/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA02077 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 12:52:29 +0200 Message-ID: <19990504080917.A3700@uni-koblenz.de> Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:09:17 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: Memory problems References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Rik van Riel on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:40:11PM +0200 ReSent-To: Linux MM ReSent-Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel List-ID: On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:40:11PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Would it help to do all non-DMA allocations from memory above the 16M > > mark if possible, and only allocate them lower than that if there was > > no memory above that mark available? > > Some time ago I wrote a quick and dirty design for a zone > allocator. I guess now is the time to dust off the design > (http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/zone-alloc.html) and think > up a good allocator for 2.3 and beyond. Here is another requirement for a future allocator - it should be ccNUMA aware, that is it should try to allocate pages as close to the local node as possible. That one may be fun ... Ralf -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/