From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Gunter Ohrner <G.Ohrner@post.rwth-aachen.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 00/02] SLOB optimizations
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:30:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A8BE2C.1080905@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135106124.13138.339.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> That looks like quite an undertaking, but may be well worth it. I think
> Linux's memory management is starting to show it's age. It's been
What do you mean by this? ie. what parts of it are a problem, and why?
I think that replacing the buddy allocator probably wouldn't be a good
idea because it is really fast and simple for page sized allocations which
are the most common, and it is good at naturally avoiding external
fragmentation. Internal fragmentation is not much of a problem because it
is handled by slab.
I can't see how replacing the buddy allocator with a completely agnostic
range allocator could be a win at all.
Perhaps it would make more sense for bootmem, resources, vmalloc, etc. and
I guess that is what Matt is suggesting.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-21 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-16 11:30 2.6.15-rc5-rt2 slowness Gunter Ohrner
2005-12-16 11:42 ` Gunter Ohrner
2005-12-16 12:04 ` Gunter Ohrner
2005-12-16 12:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-16 12:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-16 22:58 ` john stultz
2005-12-17 0:22 ` Gunter Ohrner
2005-12-17 3:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-17 3:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-17 22:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-18 16:05 ` K.R. Foley
2005-12-20 13:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-20 13:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 13:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-20 14:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 14:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-20 15:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:44 ` [PATCH RT 00/02] SLOB optimizations Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-20 16:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-20 16:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 16:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 18:19 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-20 19:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 19:43 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-20 20:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 20:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-20 21:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 21:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-12-20 22:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-21 6:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-21 12:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-21 6:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-21 7:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-12-21 7:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-21 13:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-21 15:34 ` [PATCH] SLAB - have index_of bug at compile time Steven Rostedt
2005-12-21 7:20 ` [PATCH RT 00/02] SLOB optimizations Eric Dumazet
2005-12-21 7:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-21 8:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-12-22 18:02 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-22 21:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 21:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-12-22 21:44 ` George Anzinger
2005-12-22 22:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-12-22 22:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-12-23 19:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-21 13:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-21 2:30 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-12-21 2:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:44 ` [PATCH RT 01/02] SLOB - remove bigblock list Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:44 ` [PATCH RT 02/02] SLOB - break SLOB up by caches Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 14:07 ` 2.6.15-rc5-rt2 slowness Steven Rostedt
2005-12-20 15:26 ` K.R. Foley
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