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Subject: Re: the new VMt
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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>
Date: 26 Sep 2000 10:38:40 +0200
In-Reply-To: Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:22:42 +0200 (CEST)"
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>>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

Ingo> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>> > ie. 99.45% of all allocations are single-page! 0.50% is the 8kb
>> 
>> You're right. That's why it's a waste to have so many order in the
>> buddy allocator. [...]

Ingo> yep, i agree. I'm not sure what the biggest allocation is, some
Ingo> drivers might use megabytes or contiguous RAM?

9.5KB blocks is common for people running Gigabit Ethernet with Jumbo
frames at least.

Jes
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