From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 460FC6B005C for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:50:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C0882C735 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:55:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zei+1IpO006P for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:55:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from qirst.com (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A8182C73D for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:55:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:40:17 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] Get rid of the concept of hot/cold page freeing In-Reply-To: <20090227113333.GA21296@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20090223233030.GA26562@csn.ul.ie> <20090223155313.abd41881.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090224115126.GB25151@csn.ul.ie> <20090224160103.df238662.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090225160124.GA31915@csn.ul.ie> <20090225081954.8776ba9b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090226163751.GG32756@csn.ul.ie> <20090226171549.GH32756@csn.ul.ie> <20090227113333.GA21296@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, riel@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ming.m.lin@intel.com, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com List-ID: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I hope we can get rid of various ugly elements of the quicklists if the > > page allocator would offer some sort of support. I would think that the > > Only if it provides significant advantages over existing quicklists or > adds *no* extra overhead to the page allocator common cases. :) And only if the page allocator gets fast enough to be usable for allocs instead of quicklists. -- 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