From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:53:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=XTJuF4np7+rYHzJqWK20OxMrBsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106142030.07549.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 20:30, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2011 18:58:35 Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> Ah yes, I forgot that separate regions for different purposes could
>> decrease fragmentation.
>
> That is indeed a good point, but having a good allocator algorithm
> could also solve this. I don't know too much about these allocation
> algorithms, but there are probably multiple working approaches to this.
imo no allocator algorithm is gonna help if you have comparably large,
variable-sized contiguous allocations out of a restricted address range.
It might work well enough if there are only a few sizes and/or there's
decent headroom. But for really generic workloads this would require
sync objects and eviction callbacks (i.e. what Thomas Hellstrom pushed
with ttm).
So if this is only a requirement on very few platforms and can be
cheaply fixed with multiple cma allocation areas (heck, we have
slabs for the same reasons in the kernel), it might be a sensible
compromise.
-Daniel
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 9:54 [PATCHv10 0/10] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] lib: bitmap: Added alignment offset for bitmap_find_next_zero_area() Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] lib: genalloc: Generic allocator improvements Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 11:24 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-10 12:22 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 12:52 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-10 17:16 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-14 15:49 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Jordan Crouse
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 16:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-13 9:05 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-14 13:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 13:55 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-14 16:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 16:58 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-14 18:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 18:40 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-15 7:11 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-15 7:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-15 8:14 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-16 0:48 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Philip Balister
2011-06-16 7:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 7:03 ` Hans Verkuil
2011-06-22 7:32 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-22 12:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 13:15 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-22 13:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-22 16:04 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-22 15:54 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-15 11:53 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2011-06-15 13:12 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2011-06-17 16:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 17:01 ` Daniel Stone
2011-06-14 18:58 ` Zach Pfeffer
2011-06-14 20:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 21:01 ` Jordan Crouse
2011-06-15 11:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-15 8:36 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-15 21:39 ` Larry Bassel
2011-06-15 22:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 17:01 ` Larry Bassel
2011-06-17 12:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-04 5:25 ` Ankita Garg
2011-07-04 14:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 3:20 ` Zach Pfeffer
2011-06-15 9:26 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-15 11:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-15 11:30 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-06-15 6:01 ` Subash Patel
2011-06-15 8:02 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-15 11:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 09/10] ARM: integrate CMA with dma-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-06-10 9:54 ` [PATCH 10/10] ARM: S5PV210: add CMA support for FIMC devices on Aquila board Marek Szyprowski
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