From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.234]) by e23smtp02.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9B6XmMd027651 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:33:48 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l9B6XluF4559040 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:33:47 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l9B6UsLZ023828 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:30:54 +1000 Message-ID: <470DC3A4.1000703@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:03:08 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) References: <20071001142222.fcaa8d57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4701C737.8070906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071010170702.34fb3eee@cuia.boston.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20071010170702.34fb3eee@cuia.boston.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management List List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:51:11 +0530 > Balbir Singh wrote: > >> I was hopeful of getting the bare minimal infrastructure for memory >> control in mainline, so that review is easy and additional changes >> can be well reviewed as well. > > I am not yet convinced that the way the memory controller code and > lumpy reclaim have been merged is correct. I am combing through the > code now and will send in a patch when I figure out if/what is wrong. > Hi, Rik, Do you mean the way the memory controller and lumpy reclaim work together? The reclaim in memory controller (on hitting the limit) is not lumpy. Would you like to see that change? Please do share your findings in the form of comments or patches. > I ran into this because I'm trying to merge the split VM code up to > the latest -mm... > Interesting, I'll see if I can find some spare test cycles to help test this code. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL -- 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