Re: large page patch

[William Lee Irwin III]

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 ;)

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:13:57PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 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.

And I've implemented it for Linux.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/vm/lazy_buddy/

Cheers,
Bill