Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 14:52:18 EST


On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I did essentially that for my GBpages hugetlbfs patchkit. GB pages are already
> beyond MAX_ORDER and increasing MAX_ORDER didn't seem attractive because
> it would require aligning the zones all to 1GB which would quite nasty.

I am very very interested in that work and I could not find it when I
looked for it a couple of weeks back. Can you sent me a copy?

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