Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reduce searching in the page allocatorfast-path

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 07:48:23 EST


On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Ok, I don't see this particular patch merged, is it in a merge queue somewhere?

The patch depends on Tejun's work to be merged that makes the per cpu
allocator available on all platforms. I believe that is in the queue for
2.6.32.

> After glancing through, I can see how it might help. I'm going to drop patch
> 3 of this set that shuffles data from the PCP to the zone and take a closer
> look at those patches. Patch 1 and 2 of this set should still go ahead. Do
> you agree?

Yes.

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