On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:04:36 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The memory allocator treats lower order (order <= 3) and higher order > (order >= 4) allocations in slightly different ways. As lower orders > are much more likely to be available and also more likely to be > simply reclaimed it is deemed reasonable to wait longer for those. > Lumpy reclaim also changes behaviour at this same boundary, more > agressivly targetting pages in reclaim at higher order. > > This patch removes all these magical numbers and replaces with > with a constant HIGH_ORDER. oh, there we go. It would have been better to have patched page_alloc.c independently, then to have used HIGH_ORDER in "lumpy: increase pressure at the end of the inactive list". The name HIGH_ORDER is a bit squidgy. I'm not sure what would be better though. PAGE_ALLOC_CLUSTER_MAX? It'd be interesting to turn this into a runtime tunable, perhaps. - 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/
