Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:30:29 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: large page patch |
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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:07:10 +0000 (UTC) > Of course, if you can actually measure it, that would be > interesting. Naive math gives you a guess for the order of > magnitude effect, but nothing beats real numbers ;)
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:13:57PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > The SYSV folks actually did have a buddy allocator a long time ago and > they did implement lazy coalescing because is supposedly improved > performance. > See chapter 12 section 7 in "Unix Internals" by Uresh Vahalia.
And I've implemented it for Linux.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/vm/lazy_buddy/
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