Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] big chunk memory allocator v2

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-10-29T12:37:13Z

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:29:28 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> wrote:

>
> > About my patch, I may have to prealloc all required pages before start.
> > But I didn't do that at this time.
>
> preallocate when? I thought the whole point of the large memory allocator
> was to not have to pre-allocate.
>

Yes, one-by-one allocation prevents the allocation from sudden-attack.
I just wonder to add a knob for "migrate pages here" :)

Thanks,
-Kame