From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:38:31 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 Message-ID: <23150000.1056724707@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: References: <200306250111.01498.phillips@arcor.de> <200306262100.40707.phillips@arcor.de> <200306270222.27727.phillips@arcor.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman , Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > IIRC, Martin J. Bligh had a patch which displayed information about the > buddy allocator freelist so that will probably be the starting point. From > there, it should be handy enough to see how intermixed are kernel page > allocations with user allocations. It might turn out that kernel pages > tend to be clustered together anyway. That should be merged now - /proc/buddyinfo. I guess you could do the same for allocated pages (though it'd be rather heavyweight ;-)) M. -- 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