From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:35:46 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: kmalloc() allocation. In-Reply-To: <20001031114851.D7204@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Oeser Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" , Linux kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.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.eu.org/Linux-MM/