Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:11:24 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: kmalloc() allocation. |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:35:46AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Rik: What do you think about this (physical cont. area cache) for 2.5? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ == PCAC > > > > http://www.surriel.com/zone-alloc.html > > Read it when you published it first, but didn't notice you still > worked on it ;-) > > My approach is still different. We get the HINT for free. And > your zone only shift this problem from page to mem_zone level.
It's a nice idea, but you still want to be sure you won't allocate eg. page tables randomly in the middle of the PCACs ;)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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