From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13D116B00EA for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:29:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:31:54 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] big chunk memory allocator v2 Message-ID: <20101029103154.GA10823@gargoyle.fritz.box> References: <20101026190042.57f30338.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Micha=C5=82?= Nazarewicz Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Minchan Kim , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , KOSAKI Motohiro , "fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp" , "felipe.contreras@gmail.com" , linux-arm-kernel , Jonathan Corbet , Russell King , Pawel Osciak , Peter Zijlstra List-ID: > When I was posting CMA, it had been suggested to create a new migration type > dedicated to contiguous allocations. I think I already did that and thanks to > this new migration type we have (i) an area of memory that only accepts movable > and reclaimable pages and Aka highmem next generation :-( > (ii) is used only if all other (non-reserved) pages have > been allocated. That will be near always the case after some uptime, as memory fills up with caches. Unless you do early reclaim? -Andi -- 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