From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932093AbVIZVt1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:49:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932330AbVIZVt0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:49:26 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:20651 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932093AbVIZVt0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:49:26 -0400 Message-ID: <43386CDF.5070905@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:49:19 -0500 From: Joel Schopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.7.10-1.3.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Joel Schopp , lhms , Linux Memory Management List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Mike Kravetz Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/9] fragmentation avoidance References: <4338537E.8070603@austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4338537E.8070603@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 > well. I believe the patches are now ready for inclusion in -mm, and after > wider testing inclusion in the mainline kernel. > > The patch set consists of 9 patches that can be merged in 4 separate > blocks, > with the only dependency being that the lower numbered patches are merged > first. All are against 2.6.13. > Patch 1 defines the allocation flags and adds them to the allocator calls. > Patch 2 defines some new structures and the macros used to access them. > Patch 3-8 implement the fully functional fragmentation avoidance. > Patch 9 is trivial but useful for memory hotplug remove. > --- > Patch 10 -- not ready for merging -- extends fragmentation avoidance to the > percpu allocator. This patch works on 2.6.13-rc1 but only with NUMA off on > 2.6.13; I am having a great deal of trouble tracking down why, help > would be > appreciated. I include the patch for review and test purposes as I plan to > submit it for merging after resolving the NUMA issues. It was pointed out that I did not make it clear that I would like the 9 patches in this series merged into -mm. They are ready to go. Patch 10 is just a bonus patch you can ignore.