From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:11:24 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: kmalloc() allocation. In-Reply-To: <20001031161753.F7204@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 Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:35:46AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Rik: What do you think about this (physical cont. area cache) for 2.5? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ == PCAC > > > > http://www.surriel.com/zone-alloc.html > > Read it when you published it first, but didn't notice you still > worked on it ;-) > > My approach is still different. We get the HINT for free. And > your zone only shift this problem from page to mem_zone level. It's a nice idea, but you still want to be sure you won't allocate eg. page tables randomly in the middle of the PCACs ;) regards, 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/