Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12

Nick Piggin
2005-06-01T23:09:30Z

Joel Schopp wrote:

>
> Other than the very minor whitespace changes above I have nothing bad to
> say about this patch. I think it is about time to pick in up in -mm for
> wider testing.
>

It adds a lot of complexity to the page allocator and while
it might be very good, the only improvement we've been shown
yet is allocating lots of MAX_ORDER allocations I think? (ie.
not very useful)

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