From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
'Tomasz Stanislawski' <t.stanislaws@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Aggressively allocate the pages on cma reserved memory
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:47:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140515094718.GE23991@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140515021055.GC10116@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:10:55AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > That doesn't always prefer CMA region. It would be nice to
> > understand why grouping in pageblock_nr_pages is beneficial. Also in
> > your patch you decrement nr_try_cma for every 'order' allocation. Why ?
>
> pageblock_nr_pages is just magic value with no rationale. :)
I'm not following this discussions closely but there is rational to that
value -- it's the size of a huge page for that architecture. At the time
the fragmentation avoidance was implemented this was the largest allocation
size of interest.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
"'Tomasz Stanislawski'" <t.stanislaws@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Aggressively allocate the pages on cma reserved memory
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:47:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140515094718.GE23991@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140515021055.GC10116@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:10:55AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > That doesn't always prefer CMA region. It would be nice to
> > understand why grouping in pageblock_nr_pages is beneficial. Also in
> > your patch you decrement nr_try_cma for every 'order' allocation. Why ?
>
> pageblock_nr_pages is just magic value with no rationale. :)
I'm not following this discussions closely but there is rational to that
value -- it's the size of a huge page for that architecture. At the time
the fragmentation avoidance was implemented this was the largest allocation
size of interest.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-15 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 0:32 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Aggressively allocate the pages on cma reserved memory Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 0:32 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] CMA: remove redundant retrying code in __alloc_contig_migrate_range Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 0:32 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-09 15:44 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-09 15:44 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-08 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] CMA: aggressively allocate the pages on cma reserved memory when not used Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 0:32 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-09 15:45 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-09 15:45 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-12 17:04 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-12 17:04 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-13 1:14 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-13 1:14 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-13 3:05 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-13 3:05 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-24 0:57 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-24 0:57 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-26 2:44 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-26 2:44 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-13 3:00 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-13 3:00 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-15 1:53 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-15 1:53 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-15 2:43 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-15 2:43 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-19 2:11 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 2:11 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 2:53 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-19 2:53 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-19 4:50 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 4:50 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 23:18 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-19 23:18 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-20 6:33 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-20 6:33 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-15 2:45 ` Heesub Shin
2014-05-15 2:45 ` Heesub Shin
2014-05-15 5:06 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-15 5:06 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-19 23:22 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-19 23:22 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-16 8:02 ` [RFC][PATCH] CMA: drivers/base/Kconfig: restrict CMA size to non-zero value Gioh Kim
2014-05-16 8:02 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-16 17:45 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-19 1:47 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-19 1:47 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-19 5:55 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 5:55 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 9:14 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-19 9:14 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-19 19:59 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-20 0:50 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-20 0:50 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-20 1:28 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-20 2:26 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-20 2:26 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-20 18:15 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-20 11:38 ` Marek Szyprowski
2014-05-20 11:38 ` Marek Szyprowski
2014-05-20 12:23 ` Gi-Oh Kim
2014-05-21 0:15 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-21 0:15 ` Gioh Kim
2014-05-14 8:42 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] CMA: aggressively allocate the pages on cma reserved memory when not used Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-14 8:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-15 1:58 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-15 1:58 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-18 17:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-18 17:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-19 2:29 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 2:29 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 0:32 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] CMA: always treat free cma pages as non-free on watermark checking Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-08 0:32 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-09 15:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-09 15:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-05-09 12:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Aggressively allocate the pages on cma reserved memory Marek Szyprowski
2014-05-09 12:39 ` Marek Szyprowski
2014-05-13 2:26 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-13 2:26 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-14 9:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-14 9:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-15 2:10 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-15 2:10 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-15 9:47 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2014-05-15 9:47 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-19 2:12 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19 2:12 ` Joonsoo Kim
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