From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261356AbVFAXJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:09:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261445AbVFAXJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:09:30 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:2661 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261356AbVFAXJ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:09:28 -0400 Message-ID: <429E4023.2010308@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:09:23 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050324 Debian/1.7.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jschopp@austin.ibm.com CC: Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12 References: <20050531112048.D2511E57A@skynet.csn.ul.ie> <429E20B6.2000907@austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <429E20B6.2000907@austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joel Schopp wrote: > > Other than the very minor whitespace changes above I have nothing bad to > say about this patch. I think it is about time to pick in up in -mm for > wider testing. > It adds a lot of complexity to the page allocator and while it might be very good, the only improvement we've been shown yet is allocating lots of MAX_ORDER allocations I think? (ie. not very useful) -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com