From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:47:57 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE Message-Id: <20070715224757.6432e977.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20070714130207.GA15864@skynet.ie> References: <20070710102043.GA20303@skynet.ie> <20070712122925.192a6601.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070712213241.GA7279@skynet.ie> <20070713155610.GD14125@skynet.ie> <20070714082807.GC1198@wotan.suse.de> <20070714130207.GA15864@skynet.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: npiggin@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kenchen@google.com, jschopp@austin.ibm.com, apw@shadowen.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- 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