From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B1DA6B007E for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:10:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.76]) by fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id n1N9AeeT020637 for (envelope-from kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:40 +0900 Received: from smail (m6 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB03A45DE50 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.96]) by m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895E51EF081 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62BD1DB803E for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:38 +0900 (JST) Received: from ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com (ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.104]) by s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6211DB8045 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:38 +0900 (JST) From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator In-Reply-To: <84144f020902222329u5754f8b1k790809191ac48f4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1235344649-18265-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <84144f020902222329u5754f8b1k790809191ac48f4a@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20090223180906.47F1.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:37 +0900 (JST) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List , Rik van Riel , Christoph Lameter , Johannes Weiner , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin List-ID: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time > > and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange > > tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage > > other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well. > > I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me. Yeah! I also strongly like this patch series. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time for patch review in this week. but I expect I can review and test it next week. thanks. > > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg > > Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc > caches with these patches applied. :-) > > Pekka -- 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