Re: [PATCH 20/20] Get rid of the concept of hot/cold page freeing

Christoph Lameter
2009-02-27T15:51:22Z

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > I hope we can get rid of various ugly elements of the quicklists if the
> > page allocator would offer some sort of support. I would think that the
>
> Only if it provides significant advantages over existing quicklists or
> adds *no* extra overhead to the page allocator common cases. :)

And only if the page allocator gets fast enough to be usable for
allocs instead of quicklists.