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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:09:03 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Page Colouring (was: 2.6.0 Huge pages not working as expected)
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On 27 Dec 2003 16:31:22 -0700
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 2) Creating zones for the different colors.  Zones were not
>    implemented last time, this was tried.

While this idea might sound promising, it would not work
because by definition all pages of a particular color cannot
be coalesced into order 1 or larger buddies.