[RFC][PATCH 0/3] big chunk memory allocator v2
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com
Fri Oct 29 08:31:36 EDT 2010
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:29:28 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi.kleen at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > About my patch, I may have to prealloc all required pages before start.
> > But I didn't do that at this time.
>
> preallocate when? I thought the whole point of the large memory allocator
> was to not have to pre-allocate.
>
Yes, one-by-one allocation prevents the allocation from sudden-attack.
I just wonder to add a knob for "migrate pages here" :)
Thanks,
-Kame
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