On Tuesday 15 November 2005 17:49, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch adds a "usemap" to the allocator. Each bit in the usemap indicates
> whether a block of 2^(MAX_ORDER-1) pages are being used for kernel or
> easily-reclaimed allocations. This enumerates two types of allocations;
This will increase cache line footprint, which is costly.
Why can't this be done in the page flags?
-Andi
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