Re: kmalloc() allocation.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 11:11:24 EST


On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:35:46AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > Rik: What do you think about this (physical cont. area cache) for 2.5?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ == PCAC
> >
> > http://www.surriel.com/zone-alloc.html
>
> Read it when you published it first, but didn't notice you still
> worked on it ;-)
>
> My approach is still different. We get the HINT for free. And
> your zone only shift this problem from page to mem_zone level.

It's a nice idea, but you still want to be sure you won't
allocate eg. page tables randomly in the middle of the
PCACs ;)

regards,

Rik

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