Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version12

[Nick Piggin]

Joel Schopp wrote:

> Other than the very minor whitespace changes above I have nothing bad to 
> say about this patch.  I think it is about time to pick in up in -mm for 
> wider testing.

It adds a lot of complexity to the page allocator and while
it might be very good, the only improvement we've been shown
yet is allocating lots of MAX_ORDER allocations I think? (ie.
not very useful)

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