Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 01:35:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 01:35:32 -0400 Received: from 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.225]:32135 "EHLO 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 01:35:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 02:40:52 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: "Joseph D. Wagner" cc: Linux Kernel Development List Subject: Re: Idea: (Category: Memory Management) Increase the Number of Lists of Blocks that Contain Groups of Contiguous Page Frames In-Reply-To: <000901c26dba$7d4f7860$5f71d73f@joe> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 29 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 -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/