From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] memory defragmentation to satisfy high order allocations
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:01:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097593292.8085.1776.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509480000.1097591191@[10.10.2.4]>
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 07:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Lots of systems nowadays don't have swap configured, not just embedded.
> What do we gain from making defrag slower and harder to use, by forcing
> it to use swap? Isn't pushing it into the swapcache sufficient?
For now, with no swap space configured and CONFIG_SWAP=y, no pages will
even make it into the swap cache. It'll take more code on top of what
we have to get that to work. So, we're sticking with the smallest
amount of code that we can for now. We'll fix that up later.
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-12 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 18:22 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-01 20:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-01 19:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-01 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-01 21:57 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-01 23:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-02 1:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-02 9:30 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-02 18:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-03 4:13 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-03 14:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-03 18:35 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-03 19:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-10-03 20:03 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-03 20:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-10-04 13:02 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-04 17:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-05 2:53 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-07 12:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-08 7:00 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-08 10:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-08 12:23 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-08 12:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-08 16:52 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-08 15:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-12 10:56 ` IWAMOTO Toshihiro
2004-10-12 10:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-12 17:55 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-12 14:26 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-10-12 12:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-12 15:01 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-10-04 3:24 ` IWAMOTO Toshihiro
2004-10-04 2:22 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-05 16:46 ` [PATCH] mhp: transfer dirty tag at radix_tree_replace Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-05 18:35 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-06 7:39 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-08 8:15 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-08 20:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-04 4:09 ` [RFC] memory defragmentation to satisfy high order allocations IWAMOTO Toshihiro
2004-10-04 17:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-02 2:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-02 3:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-04 8:15 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-02 2:41 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-02 3:50 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-10-02 16:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-04 2:38 ` Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA
2004-10-04 17:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-04 6:58 ` Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA
2004-10-07 15:58 ` memory hotplug and mem= Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-07 18:36 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-07 17:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-07 19:10 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-07 20:25 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-11 16:40 [RFC] memory defragmentation to satisfy high order allocations linux
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