Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:49:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] zoned-2.3.27-E0 |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > Stephen noticed that 2.3.27 doesnt boot on <=16MB boxes due to the zoned > > allocator changes. The attached patch should fix this. Unfortunately i > > found no way to prevent introducing the runtime 'nr_zones' variable. > > A quick special-case check on zones known to be empty would allow you to > maintain performance even if you have zones which will never have any > pages in them on a given machine.
yes, i first did something like this, but it's just as slow in the end. (well, there is just an academic slowdown anyway)
> You need this anyway --- Alan pointed out that it is a significant hit > on benchmarks if, during normal running, one zone fills up and you > start falling back routinely to a lower zone.
at that point we are wasting much more time already walking page tables in kswapd and try_to_free_pages to free RAM.
and we'd have to get the spinlock to rely on zone->free_pages, and for any non-page-sized allocation request zone->free_pages is not authorative.
-- mingo
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