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SubjectRe: kmalloc() allocation.
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
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"What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
-- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000

http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/

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