Re: [PATCH] Simple Page Coloring [fixed] (2.3.99pre3 diffs)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Joseph A. Martin wrote:

>+	while ((page = alloc_pages(GFP_USER, order)) != 0) {

It has bad complexity problems. An allocation have to keep working in O(1)
as now.

BTW, that's not either static or dynamic page coloring but it's "random"
page coloring ;) and it can't work if you spawn multiple tasks at the same
time.

Andrea