From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82C266B005A for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:34:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator From: "Zhang, Yanmin" In-Reply-To: <84144f020902222329u5754f8b1k790809191ac48f4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1235344649-18265-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <84144f020902222329u5754f8b1k790809191ac48f4a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:34:25 +0800 Message-Id: <1235378065.2604.434.camel@ymzhang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , Johannes Weiner , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming List-ID: On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:29 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time > > and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange > > tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage > > other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well. > > I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me. > > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg > > Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc > caches with these patches applied. :-) We are running testing against the series of patches on top of 2.6.29-rc5, and will keep you posted on the results. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org