Re: [PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 - 04:20:06 EST


On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:13:23AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Another year, another round of page allocator optimisations focusing this
> time on the alloc and free fast paths. This should be of help to workloads
> that are allocator-intensive from kernel space where the cost of zeroing
> is not nceessraily incurred.
>

Despite the numbering, there really is 21 patches. I dropped patch 22 last
night because the impact was negligible for a complex patch but didn't
refresh the numbering.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs