Re: [RFC 0/8] Variable Order Page Cache

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Apr 19 2007 - 15:16:14 EST


On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > We likely need actual defragmentation support.
>
> To be honest it looks quite pointless before this is solved. So far it is
> not even clear if it is feasible to solve it.

We have done order 1 / 2 allocations for some limited purposes for some
time (task struct etc). But you are right: We need to figure out how high
we can go with Mel's antifrag and defrag work.
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