From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Cc: jschopp@austin.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:23:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:09:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050601.162321.58454567.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <429E4023.2010308@yahoo.com.au>
> It adds a lot of complexity to the page allocator and while
> it might be very good, the only improvement we've been shown
> yet is allocating lots of MAX_ORDER allocations I think? (ie.
> not very useful)
I've been silently sitting back and considering how much this kind of
patch could help with page coloring, all existing implementations of
which fall apart due to buddy allocator fragmentation issues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-01 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-31 11:20 Mel Gorman
2005-06-01 20:55 ` Joel Schopp
2005-06-01 23:09 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-01 23:23 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-06-01 23:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-01 23:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-02 0:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-02 0:20 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-02 13:55 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-02 15:52 ` Joel Schopp
2005-06-02 19:50 ` Ray Bryant
2005-06-02 20:10 ` Joel Schopp
2005-06-04 16:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-03 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 4:49 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 5:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 5:37 ` David S. Miller, Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 5:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 5:51 ` David S. Miller, Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 13:13 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-03 6:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 13:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 16:43 ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-03 18:43 ` David S. Miller, Dave Hansen
2005-06-04 1:44 ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 2:15 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-05 19:52 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 13:05 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-03 14:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-08 17:03 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-08 17:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-10 16:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-10 17:53 ` Steve Lord
2005-06-02 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-02 18:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-02 13:15 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-02 14:01 ` Martin J. Bligh
[not found] ` <20050603174706.GA25663@localhost.localdomain>
2005-06-03 17:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-01 23:47 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-06-01 23:56 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-02 0:07 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-06-02 9:49 ` Mel Gorman
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