Re: large page patch

[David S. Miller]

   From: [e-mail] (Linus Torvalds)
   Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:07:10 +0000 (UTC)
   
   Of course, if you can actually measure it, that would be
   interesting.  Naive math gives you a guess for the order of
   magnitude effect, but nothing beats real numbers ;)

The SYSV folks actually did have a buddy allocator a long time ago and
they did implement lazy coalescing because is supposedly improved
performance.

See chapter 12 section 7 in "Unix Internals" by Uresh Vahalia.