Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Aug 2002 16:41:51 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) |
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote: > > > > As of the page coloring ! > > Can we tweak the buddy allocator to give us this additional functionality? > > I would really prefer to avoid this, and get "95% coloring" by just doing > read-ahead with higher-order allocations instead of the current "loop > allocation of one block".
OK, now I'm really going to start on some code to try and free physically contiguous pages when a higher-order allocation comes in ;)
(well, after this hamradio rpm I started)
cheers,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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