| | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator | | From | "Zhang, Yanmin" <> | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:34:25 +0800 |
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On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:29 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > 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. :-) We are running testing against the series of patches on top of 2.6.29-rc5, and will keep you posted on the results.
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