From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: large page patch
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:30:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020802043029.GH25038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020801.211357.93822733.davem@redhat.com>
From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:07:10 +0000 (UTC)
> Of course, if you can actually measure it, that would be
> interesting. Naive math gives you a guess for the order of
> magnitude effect, but nothing beats real numbers ;)
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:13:57PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> The SYSV folks actually did have a buddy allocator a long time ago and
> they did implement lazy coalescing because is supposedly improved
> performance.
> See chapter 12 section 7 in "Unix Internals" by Uresh Vahalia.
And I've implemented it for Linux.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/vm/lazy_buddy/
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 0:37 large page patch Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 0:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 1:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 1:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 3:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 1:55 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-02 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 2:29 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-02 2:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 2:53 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-02 5:24 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 5:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 6:26 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 6:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-02 6:44 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-02 10:00 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-02 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 7:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-02 8:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 9:05 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-08-02 9:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 12:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-02 13:29 ` What does this error mean? "local symbols in discarded section .text.exit" jeff millar
2002-08-02 13:52 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2002-08-02 22:50 ` jeff millar
2002-08-02 23:04 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-02 15:27 ` large page patch David Mosberger
2002-08-02 1:09 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-02 4:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 4:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-02 4:30 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-08-02 4:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 5:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-02 7:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 4:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-02 1:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 4:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-02 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 3:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-02 23:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-02 1:34 Seth, Rohit
2002-08-02 19:31 Seth, Rohit
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208012133111.1857-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2002-08-06 20:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-08-07 0:11 Seth, Rohit
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