From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:45:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [13/14] vcompound: Use vcompound for swap_map In-Reply-To: <20080325075236.GG2170@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20080321061703.921169367@sgi.com> <20080321061727.269764652@sgi.com> <8763vfixb8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080325075236.GG2170@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > I liked your idea of fixing compound pages to not rely on order > better. Ok it is likely more work to implement @) Right. It just requires a page allocator rewrite. Which is overdue anyways given the fastpath issues. Volunteers? > Also if anything preserving memory should be default, but maybe > skippable a with __GFP_GO_FAST flag. Well. Guess we need a definition of preserving memory. All allocations typically have some kind of overhead. -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org