Re: [PATCH 00/25] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator V5

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 15:46:49 EST


On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > Is it possible to go to a simple
> > linked list (one cacheline to be touched)?
>
> I considered it but it breaks the hot/cold allocation/freeing logic and
> the search code became weird enough looking fast enough that I dropped
> it.

Maybe it would be workable if we drop the cold queue stuff (dubious
anyways)?

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