From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3G00C0O007850 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:00:12 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m3G00CaV250342 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:00:12 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m3G00BfE027215 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:00:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:00:10 -0700 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smarter retry of costly-order allocations Message-ID: <20080416000010.GF15840@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> <20080415121834.0aa406c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080415121834.0aa406c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: mel@csn.ul.ie, clameter@sgi.com, apw@shadowen.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 15.04.2008 [12:18:34 -0700], Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? 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 -- Nishanth Aravamudan IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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