From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:21:21 +0100 (CET) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kanoj Sarcar , Jeff Garzik , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/