From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5B0A6B004D for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:42:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8D582C916 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:53:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ULoxs9Xpa7PQ for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:53:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from qirst.com (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DF882C922 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:53:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:43:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator V5 In-Reply-To: <20090320162716.GP24586@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1237543392-11797-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20090320153723.GO24586@csn.ul.ie> <20090320162716.GP24586@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux Memory Management List , KOSAKI Motohiro , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Is it possible to go to a simple > > linked list (one cacheline to be touched)? > > I considered it but it breaks the hot/cold allocation/freeing logic and > the search code became weird enough looking fast enough that I dropped > it. Maybe it would be workable if we drop the cold queue stuff (dubious anyways)? -- 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