From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:33:08 +0900 From: Yasunori Goto Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 In-Reply-To: <436877DB.7020808@yahoo.com.au> References: <1130917338.14475.133.camel@localhost> <436877DB.7020808@yahoo.com.au> Message-Id: <20051102172729.9E7C.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Mel Gorman , "Martin J. Bligh" , Andrew Morton , kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lhms List-ID: > > One other thing, if we decide to take the zones approach, it would have > > no other side benefits for the kernel. It would be for hotplug only and > > I don't think even the large page users would get much benefit. > > > > Hugepage users? They can be satisfied with ZONE_REMOVABLE too. If you're > talking about other higher-order users, I still think we can't guarantee > past about order 1 or 2 with Mel's patch and they simply need to have > some other ways to do things. Hmmm. I don't see at this point. Why do you think ZONE_REMOVABLE can satisfy for hugepage. At leaset, my ZONE_REMOVABLE patch doesn't any concern about fragmentation. Bye. -- Yasunori Goto -- 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