On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 04:44:04PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > However, Matthew wanted to increase pagevec size [1] and once 15^2 becomes > 63^2, it starts to be somewhat more worrying. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201105172651.2455-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Well, Tim wanted it ;-) I would suggest that rather than an insertion sort (or was it a bubble sort?), we should be using a Shell sort. It's ideal for these kinds of smallish arrays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellsort