Re: [PATCH] Smarter retry of costly-order allocations

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:00:10 -0700
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 15.04.2008 [12:18:34 -0700], Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:26:14 -0700
> > Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> 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?
> 
> Will do it tomorrow, for sure.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Will add that, as well.
> 
> Would you like me to repost the patch with the new changelog and just
> ask you therein to drop and replace? Patches 1/3 and 3/3 should be
> unchanged.
> 

Sure, whatever, I'll work it out ;)

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