Re: About the free page pool

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:11:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Note that the kernel statically allocates about 10M when it boots.  This
> is basically a bug, and fixing it is a matter of running around shouting
> at people.  This will happen ;)  This is the low-hanging fruit.

Are you referring to boot-time allocations using get_free_pages()
instead of bootmem? Killing those off would be nice, yes. It limits
the size of some hash tables on larger machines where "proportional
to memory" means "bigger than MAX_ORDER". (Changing the algorithms to
not use gargantuan hash tables might also be an interesting exercise
but one I've not got the bandwidth to take on.)


Cheers,
Bill
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