Yes. I saw the attached patches. I am definitely going to apply them and see how they work out.

In his last patch, there are a bunch of magic numbers used to reserve free page blocks
at different orders. I think that is the most interesting part. If Thomas can share how
to determine these numbers with his theory based on workloads, hardware/chipset, that would
be a great guideline for sysadmins to take advantage of the patches.

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Best Regards,
Yan Zi

On 22 Feb 2018, at 21:01, Christopher Lameter wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Zi Yan wrote:
>
>> I am very interested in the theory behind your patch. Do you mind sharing it? Is there
>> any required math background before reading it? Is there any related papers/articles I could
>> also read?
>
> His patches were attached to the email you responded to. Guess I should
> update the patchset with the suggested changes and repost.