Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > IMHO we need shrink pgtable cache mecanism.
> 
> ouch! Could you try the patch below? How large is the quicklist cache 
> with this applied?

hm, Thomas pointed it out that this wont solve all the problems as 
quicklists have a built-in "preserve me" throttle (which is rather 
stupid).

the right solution is to get rid of quicklists altogether (Thomas 
expects to have patches for that later today).

If anyone implements a _sane_ general purpose allocator that can 
preserve constructed objects then i'm all for utilizing it in x86 too, 
but quicklists arent that mechanism ...

	Ingo
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