From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>,
riel@redhat.com, aquini@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: skip the page buddy block instead of one page
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:26:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130814132602.814a88e991e29c5b93bbe22c@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130814155205.GA2706@gmail.com>
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:52:29 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:57:11AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:45:41PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> > > A large free page buddy block will continue many times, so if the page
> > > is free, skip the whole page buddy block instead of one page.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
> >
> > page_order cannot be used unless zone->lock is held which is not held in
> > this path. Acquiring the lock would prevent parallel allocations from the
>
> Argh, I missed that.
I missed it as well. And so did Xishi Qiu.
Mel, we have a problem. What can we do to make this code more
maintainable?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 4:45 Xishi Qiu
2013-08-14 7:07 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 8:57 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-14 9:14 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-14 15:52 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 16:16 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-14 16:39 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 18:00 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-14 19:11 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 2:32 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-15 2:44 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 3:46 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-15 3:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-15 3:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-15 4:17 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 4:24 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 7:45 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-15 9:51 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-15 11:15 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-15 11:23 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-15 11:23 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-15 11:17 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-15 9:51 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-15 6:38 ` Xishi Qiu
2013-08-15 11:30 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-15 13:19 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 13:42 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-15 14:16 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 20:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-08-14 22:22 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-17 14:32 ` [PATCH] mm: Improve documentation of page_order Mel Gorman
2014-01-17 18:40 ` Rafael Aquini
2014-01-17 18:53 ` Laura Abbott
2014-01-17 19:59 ` Mel Gorman
2014-01-21 11:05 ` [PATCH] mm: Improve documentation of page_order v2 Mel Gorman
2014-01-20 6:12 ` [PATCH] mm: Improve documentation of page_order Minchan Kim
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