Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.1.91 swap performance: jerky. | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:03:18 +0100 (BST) |
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> The main problem as far as I see is that while the pages can be quickly > free'd when required, the fragmentation worries me. It needs to be > integrated with the buddy system somehow (ie it should coalesce using the > buddy system, but we could then re-extract the page when required. Or > something).
Don't we have enough fragmentation problems and fixes collected in the mm layer now to hint that maybe the right answer post 2.2 is to go from a buddy to zone allocator or similar.
Alan
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