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

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 09:34:33 EST


On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> This came up again. There was some evidence when it was introduced that
> it worked and micro-benchmarks can show it to be of some use. It's
> not-obvious-enough that I'd be wary of deleting it.

Certainly there is some minimal benefit. But maybe that benefit will
vanish if you drop the doubly linked list?

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