Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:13:57 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: large page patch | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Of course, if you can actually measure it, that would be interesting. Naive math gives you a guess for the order of magnitude effect, but nothing beats real numbers ;)
The SYSV folks actually did have a buddy allocator a long time ago and they did implement lazy coalescing because is supposedly improved performance.
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