From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:32:07 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] slub: Use __GFP_MOVABLE for slabs of HPAGE_SIZE In-Reply-To: <20080214202530.GD30841@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <20080214040245.915842795@sgi.com> <20080214040314.118141086@sgi.com> <20080214141442.GF17641@csn.ul.ie> <20080214200849.GB30841@csn.ul.ie> <20080214202530.GD30841@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Pekka Enberg , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Hmmmm... Okay if pages are managed in pageblock_size chunks that are of > > HUGE_PAGE_SIZE then this patch makes no difference whatsoever. > > > > Yes it does - it means that slub pages can be allocated from the movablecore= > partition if slub_min_order is set to a magic value. What it does not do at > all is help SLUB in a meaningful fashion. No one that I know of is using this esoteric option. Did not even think about it when writing the patch. > Still NACK. Well its useless then. I will drop it then. -- 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