Re: [RFC NO CODE] [DISCUSSION] Anti-fragmenting ordered buddy allocator
From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sun Oct 11 2026 - 18:03:56 EST
On Sun, 2026-10-11 at 21:54 +0000, Dev Jain wrote:
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> Apart from dividing the freelists between migratetypes, little
> attempt
> has been made to change the algorithm
Could I convince you to take a look at these
patches?
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261007021250.1665929-1-riel@xxxxxxxxxxx/
My current plan is to first improve the
fragmentation at pageblock level, and then
add some slow path code on top of that
which can steer the allocations by physical
address range, to preserve the potential
for gigablock page lalocation.
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