Re: the new VMt

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

quoted

[..] __GFP_SOFT solves this all very nicely [..]

s/very nicely/throwing away lots of useful cache for no one good reason/

Not really. We could fix this by making the page freeing
functions smarter and only free the pages we need.

I just don't know if this is worth it for 0.5% of the 
allocations (and further more, since we allocate the
1-page allocations directly from the cache when we're
low on free memory, fragmentation isn't as bad as it
used to be with the old VM).

regards,

Rik
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