I have the same opinion ... but this state fix of Matthias make the system
work under high stress ... no `Couldn't get free page'.
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> We had a buddy balancing, now we have something that looks like communism.
> I'm not sure that works better. :)
IMHO maybe we need a meta balancing between both strategies ... on low system
load the older one is the better one ... on high system stress the other one
seems to be more promising.
BTW: I've don a TYPO in my patch ... in linux/mm/page_alloc.c the
line 206 should look like:
if (priority != GFP_NFS && priority != GFP_BUFFER)
> Gerard.
Werner