Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator

[Pekka Enberg]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time
> and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange
> tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage
> other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well.

I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc
caches with these patches applied. :-)

                               Pekka
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