Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:38:31 -0700


> IIRC, Martin J. Bligh had a patch which displayed information about the
> buddy allocator freelist so that will probably be the starting point. From
> there, it should be handy enough to see how intermixed are kernel page
> allocations with user allocations. It might turn out that kernel pages
> tend to be clustered together anyway.

That should be merged now - /proc/buddyinfo. I guess you could do the same
for allocated pages (though it'd be rather heavyweight ;-))

M.

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