Re: [PATCH] Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:02:08 +0100
mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman) wrote:
> > What's the status of making it configurable? I didn't see something
> > in -mm for that yet?
> > 
> 
> I have a patch that makes it configurable but Kamezawa-san posted a very
> promising patch about making all zones configurable in a very clever way
> which is more general than what I did. He posted it as an RFC[1] and there
> was feedback from Andy Whitcroft on how it could be made better so it wouldn't
> have been picked up for -mm but something is in the pipeline.
> 
I'll post it when I can. against the newest -mm.

> I've tested his patch for zone movable and it worked as advertised so I
> intended to see post-merge window what else could be done with it clean-up
> wise. I am curious to see if it can also make ZONE_NORMAL configurable on
> machines that only have ZONE_DMA for example.
> 
I think it as an interesting idea, Hmm....

-Kame

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