Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Sun Mar 09 2008 - 08:51:48 EST


> hm, Thomas pointed it out that this wont solve all the problems as
> quicklists have a built-in "preserve me" throttle (which is rather
> stupid).
>
> the right solution is to get rid of quicklists altogether (Thomas
> expects to have patches for that later today).
>
> If anyone implements a _sane_ general purpose allocator that can
> preserve constructed objects then i'm all for utilizing it in x86 too,
> but quicklists arent that mechanism ...

Apparently, my patch seems to have been too late ;)
please forget it.


- kosaki


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