Re: the new VMt

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 11:17:36 EST


On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> > > ie. 99.45% of all allocations are single-page! 0.50% is the 8kb
> >
> > You're right. That's why it's a waste to have so many order in the
> > buddy allocator. [...]
>
> yep, i agree. I'm not sure what the biggest allocation is, some drivers
> might use megabytes or contiguous RAM?

Stupidity has no limits...

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