From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:18:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smarter retry of costly-order allocations Message-Id: <20080415121834.0aa406c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080415172614.GE15840@us.ibm.com> References: <20080411233500.GA19078@us.ibm.com> <20080411233553.GB19078@us.ibm.com> <20080415000745.9af1b269.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080415172614.GE15840@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: mel@csn.ul.ie, clameter@sgi.com, apw@shadowen.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:26:14 -0700 Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > So... would like to see some firmer-looking testing results, please. > > Do Mel's e-mails cover this sufficiently? I guess so. Could you please pull together a new set of changelogs sometime? The big-picture change here is that we now use GFP_REPEAT for hugepages, which makes the allocations work better. But I assume that you hit some problem with that which led you to reduce the amount of effort which GFP_REPEAT will expend for larger pages, yes? If so, a description of that problem would be appropriate as well. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org