linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801101151230.20926@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:52:02 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I did essentially that for my GBpages hugetlbfs patchkit. GB pages are already
> beyond MAX_ORDER and increasing MAX_ORDER didn't seem attractive because
> it would require aligning the zones all to 1GB which would quite nasty.

I am very very interested in that work and I could not find it when I 
looked for it a couple of weeks back. Can you sent me a copy?

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