Re: increasing page size

Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Mon, 06 Jul 1998 10:13:21 +0200


Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > You want
> >
> > o Per CPU "hot" page lists
>
> Hmm, what does this item mean?
>
> > o Page colouring
> > o Algorithms that work to minimise fragmentation
> >
> > Except maybe on intel the cost of those extra complexity is nothing against
> > the performance win. Addmittedly #1 and #2 tend to work against #3
>
> In the design for the new allocator, I forgot the first
> 2 points you gave... I did have some other issues however,

Could you specify which issues?

Andrej

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