From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Scott Kaplan <sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: About the free page pool
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:12:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903051204.GG18114@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D740C35.9E190D04@zip.com.au>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:11:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Note that the kernel statically allocates about 10M when it boots. This
> is basically a bug, and fixing it is a matter of running around shouting
> at people. This will happen ;) This is the low-hanging fruit.
Are you referring to boot-time allocations using get_free_pages()
instead of bootmem? Killing those off would be nice, yes. It limits
the size of some hash tables on larger machines where "proportional
to memory" means "bigger than MAX_ORDER". (Changing the algorithms to
not use gargantuan hash tables might also be an interesting exercise
but one I've not got the bandwidth to take on.)
Cheers,
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 19:50 Scott Kaplan
2002-09-02 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-02 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 21:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-02 21:58 ` Scott Kaplan
2002-09-03 1:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-03 1:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 5:12 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-09-03 5:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-03 5:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-03 16:46 ` Daniel Phillips
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