Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator

Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-23T08:34:54Z

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:29 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> > The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time
> > and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange
> > tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage
> > other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well.
>
> I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me.
>
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>
> Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc
> caches with these patches applied. :-)
We are running testing against the series of patches on top of 2.6.29-rc5, and
will keep you posted on the results.