Re: [PATCH 20/20] Get rid of the concept of hot/cold page freeing

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 27 2009 - 10:51:22 EST


On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > I hope we can get rid of various ugly elements of the quicklists if the
> > page allocator would offer some sort of support. I would think that the
>
> Only if it provides significant advantages over existing quicklists or
> adds *no* extra overhead to the page allocator common cases. :)

And only if the page allocator gets fast enough to be usable for
allocs instead of quicklists.

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