On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: >> Is it? Last I looked it had reverted to handing out reverse-contiguous >> pages. On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:08:41PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > I thought that was fixed? Bill Irwin was working on it. > But the contiguous pages usually only work shortly after boot. After > awhile memory gets sufficiently scrambled that the coalescing in the I/O > layer becomes ineffective. It fell off the bottom of my priority queue, sorry. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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