linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths

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Message-ID: <20160411081832.GA32073@techsingularity.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:18:32 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:13:23AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Another year, another round of page allocator optimisations focusing this
> time on the alloc and free fast paths. This should be of help to workloads
> that are allocator-intensive from kernel space where the cost of zeroing
> is not nceessraily incurred.
> 

Despite the numbering, there really is 21 patches. I dropped patch 22 last
night because the impact was negligible for a complex patch but didn't
refresh the numbering.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs