Re: zone allocator

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:05:24 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Matei Conovici wrote:

> I have just exceeded my threshold on seeing "zone allocator"
> referenced and not knowing what it is :)
> Can anyone get me some pointers to material I can read ?

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/

> Has it got something to do with using multiple memory partitions and
> running a page allocator for each ?

Think of it as an LVM for memory.

> Oh, and sorry for the off-topicness ...

It's actually on topic. But I must admit that
linux-mm@kvack.org would have been better :-)

Rik.
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