Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:49:27 +0100 | From | Padraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > >>On Monday 07 October 2002 23:55, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: >>> >>>>>Sure. The mey is: >>>> >>>> ^^^ <---- "bet" ? >>> >>>Yeah. What the heck happened to my fingers? >> >>Apparently, one of them missed the key it was aiming for and the other one >>changed hands. >> > > They don't call him Kubys for nothing. > > I dug out and dusted off Al's Orlov allocator patch. And found > a comment which rather helps explain how it works. > > I performance tested this back in November. See > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.1/0281.html > > Bottom line: it's as good as the use-first-fit-everywhere > approach, and appears to have better long-term antifragmentation > characteristics. > > I shall test it.
See dirpref (Orlov's allocator) here: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/p/usenix02.pdf I was going to do this myself but of course it's already done, silly me.
Pádraig.
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