Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

Martin J. Bligh
2005-11-02T05:14:51Z

>> It's not just about memory hotplug. There are, as we have discussed
>> already, many usage for physically contiguous (and virtually contiguous)
>> memory segments. Focusing purely on any one of them will not solve the
>> issue at hand ...
>
> True, but we don't seem to have huge problems with other things. The
> main ones that have come up on lkml are e1000 which is getting fixed,
> and maybe XFS which I think there are also moves to improve.

It should be fairly easy to trawl through the list of all allocations
and pull out all the higher order ones from the whole source tree. I
suspect there's a lot ... maybe I'll play with it later on.

M.