From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050601.162321.58454567.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <429E4023.2010308@yahoo.com.au> References: <20050531112048.D2511E57A@skynet.csn.ul.ie> <429E20B6.2000907@austin.ibm.com> <429E4023.2010308@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Nick Piggin Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:09:23 +1000 Return-Path: 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 List-ID: > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org