Re: [PATCH 1/2] MM: Make page tables relocatable -- conditional flush (rc9)

[Ross Biro]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  The patch is interesting because it would allow the moving of page table
>  pages into MOVABLE sections and reduce the size of the UNMOVABLE
>  allocations signficantly (Ross: We need some numbers here). This in turn

Is there a standard test used to evaluate kernel memory fragmentation?
 I'm sure I can rig up a test to create huge amounts of fragmentation
with about 1/2 the pages being page tables.  However, I doubt that it
would reflect any real loads.  Similarly, if I check the memory
fragmentation on my test system right after it's been booted, I won't
see much fragmentation and page tables won't be causing any trouble.

    Ross
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