Page Colouring (WAS Re: Auto-Adaptive scheduler - Final chapter ( the numbers ) ...)

[Sean Hunter]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 10:21:21PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Tell me about it. Having page colouring would be very nice. However,
> it would slow down memory allocation.
> Larry: what's your position on whether Linux should have a coloured
> page allocator?

Would it be useful to have page colouring available during the debug
cycle so that deterministic behaviour was possible for perf tuning and
debugging, and the switch to a non-coloured allocator for normal use?

Or is that just adding too much complication for no real gain?

Sean