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

[Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>]

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.

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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