Re: the new VMt

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 11:22:42 EST


On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > ie. 99.45% of all allocations are single-page! 0.50% is the 8kb
>
> You're right. That's why it's a waste to have so many order in the
> buddy allocator. [...]

yep, i agree. I'm not sure what the biggest allocation is, some drivers
might use megabytes or contiguous RAM?

        Ingo

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