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    SubjectRe: the new VMt
    On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
    > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > > [..] __GFP_SOFT solves this all very nicely [..]
    >
    > s/very nicely/throwing away lots of useful cache for no one good reason/

    Not really. We could fix this by making the page freeing
    functions smarter and only free the pages we need.

    I just don't know if this is worth it for 0.5% of the
    allocations (and further more, since we allocate the
    1-page allocations directly from the cache when we're
    low on free memory, fragmentation isn't as bad as it
    used to be with the old VM).

    regards,

    Rik
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