From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <416ACBCE.9090500@colorfullife.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:07:10 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce fragmentation due to kmem_cache_alloc_node References: <41684BF3.5070108@colorfullife.com> <1097514734.12861.366.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1097514734.12861.366.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: Badari Pulavarty wrote: >Manfred, > >This patch seems to work fine on my AMD machine. >I tested your patch on 2.6.9-rc2-mm3. > >It seemed to have fixed fragmentation problem I was >observing, but I don't think it fixed the problem >completely. I still see some fragmentation, with >repeated tests of scsi-debug, but it could be due >to the test. I will collect more numbers.. > > > Did you disable the !CONFIG_NUMA block from or leave it enabled? If the CONFIG_NUMA test is in the header file, then my patch is identical to you proposal, except that I've changed the global declaration instead of just the call from alloc_percpu. -- Manfred -- 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: aart@kvack.org