From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:20:47 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701261720120.23091@skynet.skynet.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701260903110.6966@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
>> Because Andrew has made it pretty clear he will not take those patches on the
>> grounds of complexity - at least until it can be shown that they fix the e1000
>> problem. Any improvement on the behavior of those patches such as address
>> biasing to allow memory hot-remove of the higher addresses makes them even
>> more complex.
>
> What is the e1000 problem? Jumbo packet allocation via GFP_KERNEL?
>
Yes. Potentially the anti-fragmentation patches could address this by
clustering atomic allocations together as much as possible.
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 23:44 [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:45 ` [PATCH 1/8] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 12:27 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-26 13:25 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:45 ` [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 16:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 16:49 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-29 17:28 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 17:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 17:24 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 17:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 17:38 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-29 17:31 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:45 ` [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 16:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 16:58 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 17:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 17:20 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2007-01-26 17:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 17:37 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 17:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 17:53 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 18:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 20:37 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 18:35 ` Chris Friesen
2007-01-26 20:44 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 21:37 ` Chris Friesen
2007-01-25 23:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86 - Specify amount of kernel memory at boot time Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] ppc and powerpc " Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:46 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86_64 " Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 7/8] ia64 " Mel Gorman
2007-01-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 8/8] Add documentation for additional boot parameter and sysctl Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 11:07 ` [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 14:29 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 16:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 15:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 19:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-29 21:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-29 22:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-29 22:50 ` Russell King
2007-01-29 23:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-30 0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-30 9:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-02-02 5:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 5:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 16:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 16:48 ` Mel Gorman
2007-01-26 17:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 17:20 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-01 10:08 [PATCH 0/8] Create optional ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages v2 Mel Gorman
2007-03-01 10:09 ` [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE Mel Gorman
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