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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