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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] domain heap allocator changes -
	remove bit width restrictions
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:20:14 +0000
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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> 24.02.07 13:22 >>>
>On 23/2/07 18:19, "Keir Fraser" <keir@xensource.com> wrote:
>
>> I.e., a double indirection to get to a particular heap list_head.
>> 
>> Perhaps I'll take a look over the weekend...
>
>Done, by the way: should be good enough (reduced overhead for non-numa
>system from ~1MB to ~16kB).

Thanks!

>I'd like to make the allocation search smarter at some point: avoid
>exhaustive search of all viable heaps by instead have empty heaps point at
>the next heap to try (with some tradeoff between accuracy of guidance and
>cost of maintaining the guidance info; I have some ideas here).

Yes, that was a rough edge I had thought of, too.

Jan