Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12

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From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:09:23 +1000

> 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)

I've been silently sitting back and considering how much this kind of
patch could help with page coloring, all existing implementations of
which fall apart due to buddy allocator fragmentation issues.
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