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From: andi.kleen@intel.com (Andi Kleen)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] big chunk memory allocator v2
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:31:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101029103154.GA10823@gargoyle.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vlbywq137p4s8u@pikus>

> When I was posting CMA, it had been suggested to create a new migration type
> dedicated to contiguous allocations.  I think I already did that and thanks to
> this new migration type we have (i) an area of memory that only accepts movable
> and reclaimable pages and 

Aka highmem next generation :-(

> (ii) is used only if all other (non-reserved) pages have
> been allocated.

That will be near always the case after some uptime, as memory fills up
with caches. Unless you do early reclaim? 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20101026190042.57f30338.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
2010-10-27 23:22 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] big chunk memory allocator v2 Minchan Kim
2010-10-29  9:20   ` Michał Nazarewicz
2010-10-29 10:31     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-29 10:59       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-10-29 12:29         ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-29 12:31           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-10-29 12:43           ` Michał Nazarewicz
2010-10-29 14:27             ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-29 14:58               ` Michał Nazarewicz
2010-10-29 13:11       ` Minchan Kim

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