From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:18:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3067490000.1086995928@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040611161920.0a40e49d.akpm@osdl.org>
--On Friday, June 11, 2004 16:19:20 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> We've hit a problem with alignment issues where the start of the zone is
>> aligned to 16MB, for instance, and the max grouping is now 256MB. That
>> generatates a "warning: wrong zone alignment: it will crash" error (or
>> something similar). Andy sent me a patch this morning to throw away
>> the lower section, which is much nicer than crashing ... but I'd prefer
>> not to throw that RAM away unless we have to.
>
> Confused. Why do we have that test in there at all? We should just toss
> the pages one at a time into the buddy list and let the normal coalescing
> work it out. That way we'd end up with a single 16MB "page" followed by N
> 256MB "pages".
That's what I thought ... Andy looked at it more than I did, but I think
he's asleep, unfortunately. IIRC, he said the buddy stuff keys off
zone_start_pfn though. Maybe that's fixable ...
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-11 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-11 10:44 [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size David Howells
2004-06-11 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 11:12 ` David Howells
2004-06-11 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 23:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-11 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 23:18 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2004-06-11 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-12 12:45 ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-06-13 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-11 14:21 ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size [#2] David Howells
2004-06-11 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-14 10:47 ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size [try #3] David Howells
2004-06-14 11:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-14 11:41 ` David Howells
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[not found] ` <262nZ-56Z-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <263jX-5RZ-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-12 0:21 ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size Andi Kleen
2004-06-12 6:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-12 7:36 ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-12 13:11 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-12 15:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-15 16:40 ` Dave Hansen
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