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SubjectRe: [RFC] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:09:24PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I stress-tested this patch very heavily and it never oopsed so I am
> confident of it's stability, so what is left is to look at the results of
> this patch were and I think they look promising in a number of respects. I
> have graphs that do not translate to text very well, so I'll just point you
> to http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/mbuddy-results-1 instead.

This graph rather hard to comprehend.

> The results were not spectacular but still very interesting. Under heavy
> stresing (updatedb + 4 simultaneous -j4 kernel compiles with avg load 15)
> fragmentation is consistently lower than the standard allocator. It could
> also be a lot better if there was some means of purging caches, userpages
> and buffers but thats in the future. For the moment, the only real control
> I had was the buffer pages.

You might stress higher order page allocation with a) 8k stacks turned
on b) UDP NFS with large read/write.

> Opinions/Feedback?

Looks interesting.

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