Re: 2.4: why is NR_GFPINDEX so large?

Timur Tabi
2000-06-21T19:57:52Z

** Reply to message from Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com> on Wed, 21
Jun 2000 12:56:12 -0700 (PDT)

> This is a left over from the days when we had a few more __GFP_ flags,
> but that has been cleaned up now, so NR_GFPINDEX can go down.

Cool. I'm glad to see that my questions wasn't stupid :-)

>Be aware
> of any cache footprint issues though.

Ok, you just lost me. What's a "cache footprint"?

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