On Wednesday 17 September 2003 16:32, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

Higher-order would probably not be as useful as you'd suspect; try
looking at the distribution of available pages of given sizes in /proc/.
OTOH, just being able to get more than one page in one call (not relying
on physically contiguous memory) would be a simple and useful optimization.

I'm not sure if I really understood what you said. Does it means that in some 
cases (e.g., when the buddy allocator has a free chunk of the proper size) 
this could be good, even though this will not help other things (like 
reducing the number of splits in the buddy allocator)?

LMB

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