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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7
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> 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.