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From: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:21:21 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9912101308140.31379-100000@humbolt.nl.linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912100015520.10946-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > a "real" zoned allocator. Not a 2.4 thing,
> 
> would you mind elaborating what such a "real" zoned allocator has,
> compared to the current one?

It would assign certain types of use to certain
zones of memory and do so dynamically.

Ie. we'd have a 4MB zone allocated to kernel and
pagetable stuff and other areas assigned to
user pages. Now when we need to have another kernel
data area we can move pages out of one of the user
area's as needed. We can also move out arbitrarily
large chunks of contiguous user pages if we need
to allocate such an area.

Rik
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-10 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-09  1:03 Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09  2:28 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-09  2:45   ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09  5:22     ` Oliver Xymoron
1999-12-09 12:25     ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 20:24       ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 20:31         ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 20:39           ` Rik van Riel
1999-12-09 20:54             ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 23:21               ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:27                 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 23:16             ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 23:09               ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-12-10  0:44                 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-10  0:18                   ` William J. Earl
1999-12-11 19:56                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-12-10 12:21               ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1999-12-10 13:42                 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-10 18:04                   ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 20:50           ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 23:15         ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:13           ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 22:26             ` Alan Cox
1999-12-09 23:42               ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 23:50                 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-10  0:30                   ` William J. Earl
1999-12-10  0:37                     ` Alan Cox
1999-12-10  4:19                   ` Oliver Xymoron
1999-12-10 10:14                   ` Thomas Sailer
1999-12-09 23:24             ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:33               ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 23:32               ` Rogier Wolff
1999-12-09 23:44                 ` JF Martinez
1999-12-10  0:52                   ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 23:46                 ` Andi Kleen
1999-12-10 13:52       ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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