linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator

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Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:29:00 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:
> The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time
> and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange
> tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage
> other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well.

I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc
caches with these patches applied. :-)

                               Pekka
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