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From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	TAO HU <tghk48@motorola.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ye Yuan.Bo-A22116" <yuan-bo.ye@motorola.com>,
	Chang Qing-A21550 <Qing.Chang@motorola.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:15:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <k2g28c262361004052115ie21bd036hcbdbdb7750f2942b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270523356-1728-1-git-send-email-arve@android.com>

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> wrote:
> This fixes a problem where the first pageblock got marked MIGRATE_RESERVE even
> though it only had a few free pages. This in turn caused no contiguous memory
> to be reserved and frequent kswapd wakeups that emptied the caches to get more
> contiguous memory.

It would be better to add following your description of previous mail thread.
It can help others understand it in future.

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:59:00PM -0700, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
...
"I think this happens by default on arm. The kernel starts at offset
0x8000 to leave room for boot parameters, and in recent kernel
versions (>~2.6.26-29) this memory is freed."


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-01  4:05 [Question] race condition in mm/page_alloc.c regarding page->lru? TAO HU
2010-04-02  3:51 ` TAO HU
2010-04-02  5:03   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-02  5:19     ` TAO HU
2010-04-02  9:48     ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-03  0:59       ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-04 22:45         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-05 10:14         ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-05 10:49           ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-06  3:09           ` [PATCH] mm: Check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-06  4:15             ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2010-04-06 15:11             ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-02  5:04   ` [Question] race condition in mm/page_alloc.c regarding page->lru? KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-02  5:15     ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-02  7:00       ` TAO HU
2010-04-02  7:22         ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-02  5:13   ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-02  6:48     ` TAO HU
2010-04-02  7:06   ` Daniel Mack

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