Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd)

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 19:34:02 EST


   From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
   Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 16:53:39 -0400

   Does that mean that BSD already has page coloring implemented ?
   
FreeBSD has had page coloring for quite some time.

Because they don't use buddy lists and don't allow higher-order
allocations fundamentally in the page allocator, they don't have
to deal with all the buddy fragmentation issues we do.

On the other hand, since higher-order page allocations are not
a fundamental operation it might be more difficult for FreeBSD
to implement superpage support efficiently like we can with
the buddy lists.
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