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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>,
	haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] memory defragmentation to satisfy high order allocations
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:26:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1509480000.1097591191@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041012105657.D1D0670463@sv1.valinux.co.jp>

>> > iwamoto> I don't think requiring swap is a big deal.  If you don't have a
>> > iwamoto> dedicated swap device, which case I think unusual, you can swapon a
>> > iwamoto> regular file.
>> 
>> Sure its not a big deal, but nicer if it doesnt require swap.
> 
>> For memory defragmentation it is a big deal.
> 
> Why?  IMO, it isn't very rewarding to tune memory
> migration/defragmentation performance as they involve memory copy
> anyway.
> 
> Or, do you want memory defragmentation everywhere, including embedded
> systems?

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?

M.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12 14:26 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 [this message]
2004-10-12 12:17                                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-12 15:01                                         ` Dave Hansen
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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