Re: Idea: (Category: Memory Management) Increase the Number of Lists of Blocks that Contain Groups of Contiguous Page Frames

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 00:40:52 EST


On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:

> NOTE: This seems way too easy, IMHO. I'm not an experienced kernel
> developer so someone please check me on this.

If it looks way to easy, it usually is.

Your idea won't help squat for userland programs like X,
because those programs still allocate stuff one page at
a time.

Besides, why would it matter whether these programs get
physically contiguous memory or not ?

regards,

Rik

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