Re: [RFC 1/2] Protect larger order pages from breaking up

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On 02/16/2018 01:43 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> There's definitely no perfect solution.
>>
>> But, in general, I think we should cater to the dumbest users.  Folks
>> doing higher-order allocations are not that.  I say we make the picture
>> the most clear for the traditional 4k users.
> Your way might be confusing -- if there's a system which is under varying
> amounts of jumboframe load and all the 16k pages get gobbled up by the
> ethernet driver, MemFree won't change at all, for example.

IOW, you agree that "there's definitely no perfect solution." :)

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