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Re: Memory problems
- To: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
- Subject: Re: Memory problems
- From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:09:17 +0200
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9905031237130.219-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>; from Rik van Riel on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:40:11PM +0200
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905021624570.18784-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.03.9905031237130.219-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>
- ReSent-Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 12:52:26 +0200 (CEST)
- ReSent-From: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
- ReSent-Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9905051252260.219@mirkwood.dummy.home>
- ReSent-Subject: Re: Memory problems
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On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:40:11PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Would it help to do all non-DMA allocations from memory above the 16M
> > mark if possible, and only allocate them lower than that if there was
> > no memory above that mark available?
>
> Some time ago I wrote a quick and dirty design for a zone
> allocator. I guess now is the time to dust off the design
> (http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/zone-alloc.html) and think
> up a good allocator for 2.3 and beyond.
Here is another requirement for a future allocator - it should be ccNUMA
aware, that is it should try to allocate pages as close to the local node
as possible.
That one may be fun ...
Ralf
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