From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <436AB241.2030403@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:58:41 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 References: <4366C559.5090504@yahoo.com.au> <4366D469.2010202@yahoo.com.au> <20051101135651.GA8502@elte.hu> <1130854224.14475.60.camel@localhost><20051101142959.GA9272@elte.hu> <1130856555.14475.77.camel@localhost><20051101150142.GA10636@elte.hu> <1130858580.14475.98.camel@localhost><20051102084946.GA3930@elte.hu> <436880B8.1050207@yahoo.com.au><1130923969.15627.11.camel@localhost> <43688B74.20002@yahoo.com.au><255360000.1130943722@[10.10.2.4]> <4369824E.2020407@yahoo.com.au> <306020000.1131032193@[10.10.2.4]> <1131032422.2839.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <309420000.1131036740@[10.10.2.4]> <311050000.1131040276@[10.10.2.4]> <1131040786.2839.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <312300000.1131041824@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <312300000.1131041824@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Mel Gorman , Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lhms , Arjan van de Ven List-ID: Martin J. Bligh wrote: >>These days we have things like per-cpu lists in front of the buddy >>allocator that will make fragmentation somewhat higher, but it's still >>absolutely true that the page allocation layout is _not_ random. > > > OK, well I'll quit torturing you with incorrect math if you'll concede > that the situation gets much much worse as memory sizes get larger ;-) > Let me add that as memory sized get larger, people are also looking for more tlb coverage and less per page overhead. Looks like ppc64 is getting 64K page support, at which point higher order allocations (eg. for stacks) basically disappear don't they? x86-64 I thought were also getting 64K page support but I can't find a reference to it right now - at the very least I know Andi wants to support larger soft pages for it. ia64 is obviously already well covered. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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: email@kvack.org