From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:22:49 -0800 > So... what would happen if sparc64 were to use neither quicklists nor > slab? Just grab these pages from the page allocator and clear them? The page table allocator is heavier weight than the quicklists, although obviously not as heavy weight as SLAB. I know special purpose allocation lists suck, but they really help in this case in my opinion. And for the x86 cases it's not going to help to have GFP_ZERO stuff via the page allocator for page tables, they have to have specific bits in the pre-initialized areas for the kernel PGDs, not just zero. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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