Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:40:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/20] Get rid of the concept of hot/cold page freeing |
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I hope we can get rid of various ugly elements of the quicklists if the > > page allocator would offer some sort of support. I would think that the > > Only if it provides significant advantages over existing quicklists or > adds *no* extra overhead to the page allocator common cases. :)
And only if the page allocator gets fast enough to be usable for allocs instead of quicklists.
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