From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:03:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470DC3A4.1000703@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010170702.34fb3eee@cuia.boston.redhat.com>
Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:51:11 +0530
> Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> I was hopeful of getting the bare minimal infrastructure for memory
>> control in mainline, so that review is easy and additional changes
>> can be well reviewed as well.
>
> I am not yet convinced that the way the memory controller code and
> lumpy reclaim have been merged is correct. I am combing through the
> code now and will send in a patch when I figure out if/what is wrong.
>
Hi, Rik,
Do you mean the way the memory controller and lumpy reclaim work
together? The reclaim in memory controller (on hitting the limit) is not
lumpy. Would you like to see that change?
Please do share your findings in the form of comments or patches.
> I ran into this because I'm trying to merge the split VM code up to
> the latest -mm...
>
Interesting, I'll see if I can find some spare test cycles to help test
this code.
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-11 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 21:22 -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:34 ` wibbling over the cpuset shed domain connnection Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 12:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 5:21 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 13:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 7:00 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-03 10:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 4:21 ` Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Balbir Singh
2007-10-02 15:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-03 8:13 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-03 18:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-04 4:16 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 13:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-05 3:07 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-07 17:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-08 2:54 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 16:10 ` Paul Menage
2007-10-10 21:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-11 6:33 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2007-10-02 6:18 ` x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 7:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 7:36 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-02 7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 8:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-02 10:48 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-10-02 18:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 17:25 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-02 16:40 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-10-02 17:17 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-02 18:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 7:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-02 7:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 9:26 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-02 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 7:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 7:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-02 7:59 ` v4l-stk11xx* [Was: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Jiri Slaby
[not found] ` <4701FC79.3060608@gmail.com>
2007-10-02 8:10 ` Wireless damage " Jiri Slaby
2007-10-02 8:17 ` per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <20071002082831.GA19954@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 8:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 10:31 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <20071002104734.GA9410@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 10:47 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:22 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <20071002112802.GA12607@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 11:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:21 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 11:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 12:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:15 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 10:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-03 13:35 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-26 15:10 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:55 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 1:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 2:40 ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 16:02 ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 16:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 21:08 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-27 21:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-28 7:10 ` Greg KH
2007-11-02 13:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 13:50 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-02 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:32 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-02 14:59 ` [PATCH] mm: sysfs: expose the BDI object in sysfs Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 15:13 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 16:37 ` per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Trond Myklebust
2007-12-14 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-14 15:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-12-14 15:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 14:38 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 11:00 ` Martin Knoblauch
[not found] ` <20071002083922.GA28892@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 8:39 ` writeback fixes Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 16:06 ` kswapd min order, slub max order [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 9:10 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-02 18:38 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-02 18:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-03 0:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 16:12 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Pekka Enberg
2007-10-02 16:21 ` new aops merge [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 17:45 ` remove zero_page (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-03 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-08 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 13:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-09 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 9:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 10:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 4:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-10 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 14:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 19:50 ` A kernel Tracing interface " David Wilder
2007-10-09 9:19 ` r/o bind mounts, was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-13 8:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-10-13 8:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-13 11:45 ` Borislav Petkov
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