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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	alexn@dsv.su.se, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alexn@telia.com,
	apw@shadowen.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitu.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Fr?d?ric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: + page-owner-tracking.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:36:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D61F09.2080808@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090403141743.GF8875@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote:
> 
>> One thing I'm not sure about this patch is whether it manages to 
>> record an allocation only once, i.e. does it log a single event 
>> when/if the slab allocator requests pages? Some time ago I sent a 
>> patch adding GFP_NOTRACE to gfp.h, but was rejected. Maybe this 
>> could be a way out of the mess.
>>
>> (GFP_NOTRACE would also allow us to log "backend" allocations 
>> easily and treat them separately, for the record, or simply filter 
>> them out.)
> 
> makes a lot of sense IMO to annotate these via a GFP flag.

Yup, make sense. I think I rejected the patch (did I?) because I wanted 
to fix the slub/slab mess differently but here it makes perfect sense.

			Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-03 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200903312321.n2VNLAMI006236@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 11:15 ` + page-owner-tracking.patch added to -mm tree Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 12:55   ` Mel Gorman
2009-04-01 13:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 13:32       ` Mel Gorman
2009-04-01 13:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 14:49           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-01 15:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02  7:12               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-03  4:21                 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2009-04-03 14:17                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-03 14:36                     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-04-03 14:43                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-04 14:08                         ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2009-04-06  7:12                         ` Pekka Enberg

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