| Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:29:00 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote: > The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time > and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange > tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage > other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well.
I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc caches with these patches applied. :-)
Pekka
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