From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ck@vds.kolivas.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: implement swap prefetching
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:34:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060207203420.GA10493@dmt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E8436F.2010909@yahoo.com.au>
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:51:27PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:00 pm, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> >>Con Kolivas wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 02:08 pm, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>prefetch_get_page is doing funny things with zones and nodes / zonelists
> >>>>(eg. 'We don't prefetch into DMA' meaning something like 'this only
> >>>>works
> >>>>on i386 and x86-64').
> >>>
> >>>Hrm? It's just a generic thing to do; I'm not sure I follow why it's i386
> >>>and x86-64 only. Every architecture has ZONE_NORMAL so it will prefetch
> >>>there.
> >>
> >>I don't think every architecture has ZONE_NORMAL.
> >
> >
> >!ZONE_DMA they all have, no?
> >
>
> Don't think so. IIRC ppc64 has only ZONE_DMA although may have picked up
> DMA32 now (/me boots the G5). IA64 I think have 4GB ZONE_DMA so smaller
> systems won't have any other zones.
>
> On small memory systems, ZONE_DMA will be a significant portion of memory
> too (but maybe you're not targetting them either).
embedded 32-bit PPC's have all their memory in DMA:
Free pages: 186376kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:3095 inactive:13281 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:46594 slab:928 mapped:2471 pagetables:80
DMA free:186376kB min:2048kB low:2560kB high:3072kB active:12380kB inactive:53124kB present:262144kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 23:28 Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 1:29 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 1:32 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 1:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 3:29 ` [PATCH] mm: implement swap prefetching v21 Con Kolivas
2006-02-08 3:49 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 3:08 ` [PATCH] mm: implement swap prefetching Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 4:02 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 5:00 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 6:02 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 6:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 10:54 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 17:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 20:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2006-02-07 22:39 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 4:46 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 5:06 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-08 5:13 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 5:33 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-24 11:23 [PATCH] mm: Implement " Con Kolivas
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