[PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework

Minchan Kim
2010-08-26T04:06:28Z

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:50:17 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> 128MB...too big ? But it's depend on config.
>>
>> IBM's ppc guys used 16MB section, and recently, a new interface to shrink
>> the number of /sys files are added, maybe usable.
>>
>> Something good with this approach will be you can create "cma" memory
>> before installing driver.
>>
>> But yes, complicated and need some works.
>>
> Ah, I need to clarify what I want to say.
>
> With compaction, it's helpful, but you can't get contiguous memory larger
> than MAX_ORDER, I think. To get memory larger than MAX_ORDER on demand,
> memory hot-plug code has almost all necessary things.

True. Doesn't patch's idea of Christoph helps this ?
http://lwn.net/Articles/200699/

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim