From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] earlier allocation of order 0 pages from pcp in __alloc_pages
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:36:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050929153626.3ab4fce1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050929150155.A15646@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
"Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> wrote:
>
> [PATCH]: Try to service a order 0 page request in __alloc_pages from the pcp list before checking the aone_watermarks.
>
> Try to service a order 0 page request from pcp list. This will allow us to not check and possibly start the reclaim activity when there are free pages present on the pcp. This early allocation does not try to replenish an empty pcp.
(Please avoid the 240-column emails!)
Why is this a desirable change to make?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-29 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-29 22:01 Seth, Rohit
2005-09-29 22:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-09-30 1:05 ` Rohit Seth
2005-09-29 22:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-29 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-30 1:58 ` Rohit Seth
2005-09-30 12:30 ` Martin Hicks
2005-09-30 1:32 ` Rohit Seth
2005-09-30 1:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-29 22:50 ` Dave Hansen
2005-09-30 1:10 ` Rohit Seth
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