Re: More info: 2.1.108 page cache performance on low memory

Rik van Riel
1998-07-22T21:31:03Z

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> successfully with 8k NFS. However, the zoned allocation can use memory
> less efficiently: the odd free pages in the paged zone cannot be used by
> non-paged users and vice versa, so overall performance may suffer.
> Right now I'm cleaning the code up for a release against 2.1.110 so
> that we can start testing.

Hmm, I'm curious as to what categories your allocator
divides memory users in. Is it just plain swappable
vs. non-swappable or is it fragmentation-causing vs.
fragmentation sensitive or something entirely different?

Btw, I'm working on version 2 of my zone allocator design
right now. Maybe we want the complex but complete version
for 2.3...

Rik.
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