Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/9] fragmentation avoidance

Joel Schopp
2005-09-26T21:48:02Z

> well. I believe the patches are now ready for inclusion in -mm, and after
> wider testing inclusion in the mainline kernel.
>
> The patch set consists of 9 patches that can be merged in 4 separate
> blocks,
> with the only dependency being that the lower numbered patches are merged
> first. All are against 2.6.13.
> Patch 1 defines the allocation flags and adds them to the allocator calls.
> Patch 2 defines some new structures and the macros used to access them.
> Patch 3-8 implement the fully functional fragmentation avoidance.
> Patch 9 is trivial but useful for memory hotplug remove.
> ---
> Patch 10 -- not ready for merging -- extends fragmentation avoidance to the
> percpu allocator. This patch works on 2.6.13-rc1 but only with NUMA off on
> 2.6.13; I am having a great deal of trouble tracking down why, help
> would be
> appreciated. I include the patch for review and test purposes as I plan to
> submit it for merging after resolving the NUMA issues.

It was pointed out that I did not make it clear that I would like the 9 patches
in this series merged into -mm. They are ready to go.

Patch 10 is just a bonus patch you can ignore.