Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:08:41 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? |
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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Something I talked about with Linus a while back was to separate memory > into 4MB or 16MB zones, and do allocation not from individual zones but > from zone lists. Then you just keep track of two lists of zones: one > which contains zones which are known to have been used for non-pagable > allocations, and another in which all allocations are pagable.
You could do that with dynamic granularity: mark buddy nodes as containing non-pageable allocations when appropriate.
-- Jamie
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