Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12

Nick Piggin
2005-06-04T02:15:55Z

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>>network code. If the latter, that would suggest at least in theory
>>it could use noncongiguous physical pages.
>
>
> With Dave's latest super-TSO patch, TCP over loopback will only be
> doing order-0 allocations in the common case. UDP and others may
> still do large allocations but that logic is all localised in
> ip_append_data.
>
> So if we wanted we could easily remove most large allocations over
> the loopback device.

I would be very interested to look into that. I would be
willing to do benchmarks on a range of machines too if
that would be of any use to you.

Thanks,
Nick

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