From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc() allocation.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:35:46 -0200 (BRDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010311134590.23139-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001031114851.D7204@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:40:16PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > If you write the defragmentation code for the VM, I'll
> > be happy to bump up the limit a bit ...
>
> Should become easier once we start doing physical page scannings.
>
> We could record physical continous freeable areas on the fly
> then. If someone asks for them later, we recheck whether they
> still exists and free (inactive_clean) or remap (active or
> inactive_dirty) the whole area, whether they are used or not.
>
> This could still be improved by using up smallest fit areas
> first for kmalloc() based on these areas.
> Rik: What do you think about this (physical cont. area cache) for 2.5?
http://www.surriel.com/zone-alloc.html
cheers,
Rik
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2000-10-31 10:48 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-31 13:35 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-10-31 13:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-10-31 15:17 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-31 16:11 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-31 18:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-31 14:43 ` afei
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